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The frame of gold or silver surrounding a jewel in a ring, brooch, etc.
“This precious stone set in the silver sea.”
Shakespeare: Richard II., ii. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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