Brewer's: Jet

So called from the River Gages, in Asia Minor, on the banks of which it was collected by the ancients. It was originally called gagates, corrupted into gagat, jet.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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