cabochon

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabochon, diminutive form of caboche (“head”), from Old French caboce, from Latin caput (“head”).

noun

  1. (chiefly attributive) A precious stone which has only been polished, not cut into facets.
    Thecla was […] stroking a bracelet formed like a kraken, a kraken whose tentacles wrapped the white flesh of her arm; its eyes were cabochon emeralds. 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 8, in The Shadow of the Torturer

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