'Turquoise' is a word borrowed from French 'turqueise'. The word entered the English language some time around the 14th century.
turquoise [noun] [14th century]
- a mineral that is a blue, bluish-green, or greenish-gray hydrous basic phosphate of copper and aluminum, takes a high p...
- a light greenish blue
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Etymology: Middle English 'turkeys' from Anglo-French 'turkeise' from feminine of 'turkeis' Turkish, from 'Turc' Turkish
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