Galle has a large population of Moormen among its residents, who are generally dealers in gems, or engaged as manufacturing jewelers and practical Lapidaries.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
Moreover, there were sets of men actually hostile to her and her brother; the companies of statuaries, Lapidaries, and goldsmiths, were jealous of foreign artists like them, who showed contempt for Africa, and who were acquainted, or rather intimate, with many of the higher classes, and even high personages in the place.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Bestiaries and Lapidaries had familiarised men's minds with the art of finding a symbolical significance in particular animals and stones; and the language of poets was becoming a language of flowers.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward