Brewer's: Male Sapphires

Deep indigo-coloured sapphires. The pale blue are the female sapphires. (Emmanuel: `Diamonds and Precious Stones, [1867].)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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