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1. baguette, n. View full entry 1926
...A gem, usu. a diamond, cut in a long rectangular shape. Also attrib....
2. bezel, n. View full entry 1839-75
...The oblique sides or faces of a cut gem; spec. the various oblique faces and edges of a brilliant, which lie round the ‘table’ or large central plane on the...
3. ˈbrilliant, n.1 View full entry 1690
...A diamond of the finest cut and brilliancy....
4. briolette, n. View full entry 1865
...A pear-shaped diamond, having facets cut in all directions....
5. chip, n.1 View full entry ?a1889
...spec. In gem-cutting, a cleavage which weighs less than three-fourths of a carat (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909)....
6. collet, n.2 View full entry 1675
...The horizontal base of a diamond when cut as a brilliant; also called culet...
7. crown, n. View full entry 1875
...In lapidaries' work, the part of a cut gem above the girdle....
8. culet, n.2 View full entry 1678
...The horizontal face or plane forming the bottom of a diamond when cut as a brilliant....
9. cutting-box in cutting, n. View full entry 1744
...? a chaff- or straw-cutter;a receptacle for the diamond dust in diamond-cutting....
10. degree, n. View full entry 1909
...degree-cut in gem-cutting: = trap-cut...
11. ˈdiamond-cut, adj. and n. View full entry 1637
...Cut into the shape of a diamond or rhomb....
12. ˈdiamond-cut, adj. and n. View full entry 1703
...Cut with facets like a diamond; cut in relief in the form of a low square-based pyramid, pointed or truncated....
13. dop, n.2 View full entry 1764
...Diamond-cutting. A small copper cup with a handle, into which a diamond is cemented, to be held while being cut or polished....
14. facet, n.2 View full entry 1622
...Originally: one of the small cut and polished faces of a diamond or other gem. In later also: a flat, usually smooth, face or surface of any object....
15. facet diamond in facet, n.2 View full entry 1676
...a diamond whose surface is cut into facets....
16. feuillet, n.2 View full entry 1874
...(See quot. 1874.)...
17. ˈknife-ˌedge, n. View full entry 1909
...Diamond-cutting. (See quot. 1909.)...
18. naat, n. View full entry 1945
...An irregularity in the structure of a diamond, caused by a change of direction in the grain as a result of twinning (see twinning2). Also: a diamond having such...
19. naïf, adj. and n.2 View full entry 1970
...Part of the natural surface of a diamond crystal, deliberately left when it is cut or polished. rare....
20. natural, n.1 View full entry 1970
...On a cut diamond: a small area of the surface of the crystal left in its original condition; = naïf2....
