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amber

Definition

  • noun: a hard orange-yellow substance that can be polished and used for jewelry and other decorations
  • noun: a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin that takes a fine polish and is used chiefly in making ornamental objects (as beads)

Examples

  • “…'amber' waves of grain…” <aq>Katharine Lee Bates, “America the Beautiful” (1911)</aq>

  • the 'amber' light of the late afternoon sun

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I could hike this trail. I hope you won't be mad at me if I quit. "Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth, "one bottle amber, perfect, "a hundred-year-old cure for fever or melancholy... "A tonic for living on this earth. "Today I was reading about Marie Curie." (..)
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