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cairngorum

cairngorum is the alternative form of cairngorm.

Meaning of cairngorm

Noun

cairngorm (countable and uncountable, plural cairngorms)

  1. A precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery.
    • And then he led away the talk to their home in Devonshire, and the red, bright earth, and the deep-green combes, and the peat streams like cairngorm pebbles, and the wild moor with its high, cloudy tors for a giant background to the picture[…].1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part II, Chapter 6

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Questions about cairngorum

What is cairngorum the alternative form of?
Cairngorum is the alternative form of cairngorm.

Words near cairngorum in the dictionary

  1. Cairnes
  2. Cairneyhill
  3. cairngorm
  4. cairngorms
  5. cairngormstone
  6. cairngorum
  7. Cairnie
  8. Cairnlea
  9. cairnless
  10. cairnlike
  11. Cairnryan

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