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chalcedony (n.)
c. 1300, from Latin
calcedonius
, in Vulgate translating Greek
khalkedon
in Rev. xxi:19, found nowhere else. Connection with
Chalcedon
in Asia Minor "is very doubtful" [OED]. The city name is from Phoenician and means "new town."
