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rubines

rubines is the plural of rubine.

Meaning of rubine

Noun

rubine (countable and uncountable, plural rubines)

  1. A reddish aniline dye.
  2. (archaic, poetic) A ruby.
    • Some [wines] deepe empurpled as the hyacine ,
      Some as the rubine1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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What is rubines the plural of?
Rubines is the plural of rubine.

Words near rubines in the dictionary

  1. Rubik's Revenges
  2. rubin
  3. Rubin vase
  4. rubine
  5. rubineous
  6. rubines
  7. Rubino
  8. Rubinomics
  9. Rubinos
  10. rubins
  11. Rubinstein

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