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plural cabochons
(chiefly attributive) A precious stone which has only been polished, not cut into facets. quotations examples
Thecla was […] stroking a bracelet formed like a kraken, a kraken whose tentacles wrapped the white flesh of her arm; its eyes were cabochon emeralds.
1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 8, in The Shadow of the Torturer