A marquise is a boat

A marquise is a boat. Pointed at both ends — a shuttle, a navette, a hull you can read on the finger. You do not meet a single tip. You do not meet a pear. A pear is a drop, one point and a rounded shoulder. An oval is a soft egg, no points. A briolette is a drop you can hang, facets all around. A marquise begins when both ends have already agreed to be points. You feel a boat, not a tear.

The cut can be a diamond whose outline is the boat. The bezel can be the boat even when the stones inside are smaller chips. Either way the literacy is the hull: two tips, a long middle, a shape you would know before you named a carat.

A mid-nineteenth-century shuttle ring is the lesson in one face. A boat of blue enamel, diamonds as a border along the hull, points already at both ends. You would feel that outline before you named a flower. A pear would have asked for one tip. An oval would have stayed soft. A briolette would have hung as a drop. This marquise stays a boat. The bezel has already agreed to be a hull.

The literacy is the outline you can name. If the stone has one point and a rounded shoulder, you are in a pear. If both ends are soft, you are in an oval. If the stone is a hanging drop of facets, you are in a briolette. A marquise begins when both ends are already points — a boat you can read.

A quieter navette, then a cameo already cut as a boat

A silver navette keeps the same appetite as a quieter boat. A slender hull of blue, one diamond as a small hour at the heart, borders of chips along the sides. You would meet those two tips before you named a decade. A pear would have stayed a drop. An oval would have stayed an egg. A briolette would have asked to hang. This ring stays a boat. The outline has already agreed to be a marquise, worn as a hull that can cover the finger.

A gold cameo ring finishes the thought as a boat already cut for a profile. A marquise-shaped bezel, an onyx face inside the hull, diamond buttons as small pauses on the coat. You would feel those two points before you named a sitter. Turn the jewel and a marquise stays a boat. A pear would stay a tear. An oval would stay soft. A briolette would stay a hanging drop. You would feel a hull, then the stone or the cameo that claims it.

That is the note. A pear is a drop. An oval is soft. A briolette hangs. A marquise is the boat — pointed at both ends, a hull the finger can wear.

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