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noun
A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus […]
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.