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cacholong

CIDE DICTIONARY

cacholongn. [F. cacholong, said to be from Cach, the name of a river in Bucharia + cholon, a Calmuck word for stone; or fr. a Calmuck word meaning “beautiful stone”].
     An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cacholong, n. a kind of opal.

Etymology
F f. Mongolian kashchilon beautiful stone

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