A pear-shaped or oval gem, especially a diamond, cut in long triangular facets.
[French, perhaps alteration (influenced by brillant, brilliant) of brignolette, diminutive of brignole, dried plum, from Brignoles, a town of southeast France.]
| citrine briolette necklace 14 k gold |
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