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Look up: rhinestone

  1. rhinestone
    [n] - an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. rhinestone
    1A colourless quartz much used by 19thC jewellers. 2 Term often used c. 1900 for multicoloured glass stones. 3 Modern term for any coloured glass paste.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  3. Rhinestone
    Rhine'stone` noun [ Confer German rheinkiesel Rhine quartz.] A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/76

  4. rhinestone
    noun an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or paste
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Rhinestone
    • (n.) A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. rhinestone
    colourless, faceted glass used in jewelry; also foil-backed or silvered cut glass used to imitate diamonds. Originally used to designate gemstones ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/43

  7. rhinestone
    Also - Term often used c1900 for multicoloured glass stones.
    Found on http://www.antique-marks.com/antique-ter

  8. Rhinestone
    A `rhinestone` or `paste` or `diamante` is a diamond simulant made from rock crystal, glass or acrylic. Originally, rhinestones were rock crystals gathered from the river Rhine. The availability was greatly increased around 1775 when the Alsatian jeweller Georg Friedrich Strass had the idea to imita...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone

  9. Rhinestone
    (film) `Rhinestone` is a 1984 comedy film directed by Bob Clark with a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and Phil Alden Robinson; the film stars Stallone and Dolly Parton. Plot: Jake Farris (Dolly Parton), a country singer stuck in a long-term contract performing at a sleazy urban cowbo...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone

  10. Rhinestone
    (film soundtrack) `Rhinestone` was a soundtrack album from the 1984 film starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone. The Dolly Parton-composed soundtrack produced two Top Ten country singles: "God Won`t Get You" and the chart-topping "Tennessee Homesick Blues". Pa...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinestone



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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