culet

The culet is the tiny point or facet at the bottom of the diamond.

The culet is added largely to protect the integrity of the gemstone.

It has that cloudy spot down at the culet.

In gemology, a culet is a flat face on the bottom of a gemstone.

They may or may not have a culet.

Eight extra facets are sometimes added around the culet at the lower pyramid of a brilliant diamond.

The importance of a culet was also realised, and some table-cut stones may possess one.

The culet (tip) is ground and polished to a hexadecagonal surface parallel to the table.

Tolkowsky's calculations included neither a culet nor a girdle.

With other gemstones that are not subject to cleavage, the culet is added to protect the fragility of the pointed tip.

Downward impact caused when a stone is being set or is being worn, can cause chips on the culet of the diamond.

Instead of a culet, step-cut stones have a keel running the length of the pavilion terminus.

Sometimes a 58th facet, called a culet is cut on the bottom of the stone to help prevent chipping of the pavilion point.

The facet pattern features eight needle-like facets pointing outward from the culet (bottom) facet.

Historically, some jewelers' stones were misgraded because of smudges on the girdle, or dye on the culet.

The total facet count is 62 (excluding the culet): 25 on the crown; 29 on the pavilion; and 8 on the girdle.

"Pavilion - the lower faceted part of a brilliant, between the girdle and the culet," Noah (Webster, that is) gives as his third meaning.

A culet is a piece of plate armour consisting of small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks.

Earlier brilliant cuts often have very large culets, while modern brilliant cut diamonds generally lack the culet facet, or it may be present in minute size.

The star facets on the crown were vertically split and the pavilion had sixteen needle-like facets, arranged in pairs, pointing outward from the culet facet.

Culet is still alive but manages to say a single word before dying: Pitorliua, the name that villagers have given to a ghost believed to haunt a cave.

The assailant kills Dionís, leads the blindfolded horse to a cliff's edge then pushes the wagon with Dionís and his son, Culet, off the cliff.

The Croix de Culet is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, overlooking Champéry in the canton of Valais.

The culet has remained optional on many diamond cuts up to the present day, and was omitted from Marcel Tolkowsky's original designs for the round brilliant diamond cut in 1919.

Goli Cheese Vada Pav, a cheddar cheese and potato culet with spices placed between burger buns served with sweet and dry chutney.