table-diamond

table-diamond (plural table-diamonds)

1. Alternative form of table diamond
   • 1823, George Crabb, Universal Technological Dictionary:

     Tent (Mis.) a term among lapidaries for what they put under table-diamonds when they set them.

   • 1823, Walter Scott, Quentin Durward: A Romance - Volume 2, page 43:

     If you would save the Countess and your own hopes, follow me in the name of her who sent you a table-diamond, with three leopards engraved on it!”

   • 2010, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest, page 235:

     Lord Dartmouth, who was not inclined to extenuate any of the misdeeds of the duchess of Marlborough to the queen, declares "that she tried to sell this inestimable present of royalty, for he saw an advertisement that such a table-diamond was in the hands of a Jew to be disposed of, some years subsequent to the death of the queen."

   • 2013, William Tudor Jones, Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal:

     The custom of burying corpses with a ring on the finger continued for ages, as I have remarked in several chapters of this work. Annexed is an illustration, from the Archaeologia (vol. ii, p. 32, 1773), of a ring with seventy-five table-diamonds,set in gold, found in 1748 in a grave at Carne, seven miles west of Mullinghar, inthecounty of Westmeath, Ireland.