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connie agate
noun
a type of playing marble made from agate AUSTRALIA
Perhaps from “cornelian,” with elision of the “r.”- TEACHER: “Well, what’s the matter now?” SMALL BOY: “Please, I’ve swallered Brown’s conny agate, an’ he wants it back.” — Norman Lindsay, Comic Art of Norman Lindsay, p. 211, 1916
- My collection of marbles consisted mainly of priceless connie agates handed down by Grandpa. — Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, p. 19, 1980
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