Both Uses of
facet
in
War and Peace
- The owners of houses in which much property had been left, brought there from other houses, complained of the injustice of taking everything to the Faceted Palace in the Kremlin; others insisted that as the French had gathered things from different houses into this or that house, it would be unfair to allow its owner to keep all that was found there.†
Chpt 15
- On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.†
Chpt 15 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(facet as in: facet of the question) a distinct feature or element of something
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(2)
(facet as in: facet of the diamond) a smooth surface of a cut gemstone
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, facet can refer to a smooth flat surface of a bone or tooth. It can also refer to one of the lenses in a compound eye such as that of a house fly.