diamantine

[Jonathan Lighter]

2011 Amy Biancolli
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/27/DDMD1LM87B.DTL :
Was it Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who actually put quill to
parchment in producing English literature's most profound and diamantine
verse?

'As precious or as beautiful as a diamond'?

In any case, no figurative exx. in OED.

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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