Noun: carbuncle
| Singular | carbuncle |
| Plural | carbuncles |
Sample Sentences
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With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […] [1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act II, scene 2, line 401:]
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And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 54:12:]
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His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; […] [1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie: And some Parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adiacent. Of their Religion, Language, Habit, Discent, Ceremonies, and other Matters Concerning Them: Together with the Proceedings and Death of the Three Late Ambassadours: Sir D. C[otton] Sir R. S[herley] and the Persian Nogdi-Beg: As also the Two Great Monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great Mogol, London: William Stansby for Iacob Bloome, →OCLC; republished as William Foster, editor, Travels in Persia 1627–1629. Abridged and Edited by Sir William Foster … with an Introduction and Notes (Broadway Travellers), London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1928, →OCLC, page 79:]
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These are usually represented as short and stumpy with shaggy hair, dark wrinkled faces, little deep-set eyes, but bright as carbuncles. [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 432:]
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A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:]
Nouns inflected like carbuncle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”). Doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel. See: Middle English Nouns '
carbuncle', Latin Nouns '
carbunculus'.
Verbs referencing "carbuncle"
Spanish Nouns
carbunco.