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Word: Touchstone
Speech Type: Noun
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈtʌtʃstəʊn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a piece of fine-grained dark schist or jasper formerly used for testing alloys of gold by observing the colour of the mark which they made on it.
Short Definition:piece of fine-grained dark schist or jasper
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