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Definitions
an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus
Word origin
From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carbō (“a coal, charcoal”). Doublet of Garfinkel and Garfunkel.
Used in a sentence
“With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […]”
“And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.”
“His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; […]”
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