Derbyshire spar

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English

Noun

Derbyshire spar (countable and uncountable, plural Derbyshire spars)

  1. (mineralogy) A massive variety of fluorspar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Derbyshire spar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)