Balas-ruby

Full definition of balas-ruby

Noun

1. A rose-coloured variety of ruby.
• 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 171:In shape it is a tiny square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies.
• 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 120:Richard II had a coat, valued at thirty thousand marks, which was covered with balas rubies.