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balas ruby

balas ruby is the alternative form of balas-ruby.

Meaning of balas-ruby

Noun

balas-ruby (plural balas-rubies)

  1. A rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a type of ruby.
    • In shape it is a tiny square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bisara of Pooree”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 171

Forms of balas ruby

pluralbalas rubies

Questions about balas ruby

What is balas ruby the alternative form of?
Balas ruby is the alternative form of balas-ruby.

Words near balas ruby in the dictionary

  1. balaphones
  2. balapiravir
  3. Balarama
  4. balas
  5. balas rubies
  6. balas ruby
  7. balas-rubies
  8. balas-ruby
  9. balase
  10. balases
  11. Balash

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