Blue-ground
noun
(mineralogy) another name for kimberlite
Historical Examples
The Swastika Thomas Wilson
The Song of Songs Hermann Sudermann
Tent Work in Palestine Claude Reignier Conder
The World of Romance William Morris
Chats on Old Miniatures J. J. Foster
Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There Emanuel Swedenborg
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines Andrew Ure
Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly, November 1899 Various
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 Various
History of the Union Jack and Flags of the Empire Barlow Cumberland
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