How to pronounce jet

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What jet means

noun

Most people know jet in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A hard, glossy black stone polished for jewelry

In a sentence: Her grandmother's brooch was carved from jet and gleamed like black glass.

Where it comes from: It comes through Old French from the Greek name of Gagai, a town in an old land called Lycia. It is a different word from jet, the airplane, which goes back to the Latin iacere, to throw.

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