pumice stone

English

Alternative forms

• pumy stone [16th-17th c.]

Noun

pumice stone (plural pumice stones)

1. A piece of pumice; also used as a collective noun.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine.

Translations

piece of pumice or collective noun

• German: Bimsstein (de) m
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