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Piggy-black diamond

A type of doublet made with a flat diamond having a large culet cemented above the table of a smaller diamond so as to appear as one large natural stone.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson