Etymology

Noun

1. Hard transparent minerals that are often used as gemstones and abrasives.
2. A dark red.

Quotations

• 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127

  How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.

See also

• almandine
• andradite
• carbuncle
• cinnamon stone
• Colorado ruby
• demantoid

• essonite
• grossularite
• hessonite
• melanite
• pyrope

• rhodolite
• spessartine
• topazolite
• uvarovite
• Appendix:Colours

Noun

1. Definite form of garn

   Hun brukte det røde garnet i strikketøyet.