first water

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   the highest quality gems

   Broadersuperiority

Questions about first water

What does first water mean?

first water means "the highest quality gems".

Is first water a common word?

first water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.