Citations:electre

Noun: amber or mixed metal

 * 1585, James VI., The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie, page #25:
 * The fyfth is made of pale Electre light,
 * 1730, Francis Bacon quoted in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume III., page #212:
 * For if it be in beauty, and all the uſes aforeſaid equal to ſilver, it were a thing of ſingular profit to the ſtate, and to all particular perſons, to change ſilver plate or veſſel into the compound ſtuff, being a kind of ſilver electre, and to turn the reſt into coin.
 * 1810, William Drummond quoted in The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume V., page #705:
 * Millions of angels in the lofty height,
 * Clad in pure gold, and the electre bright,
 * Ushering the way still where the Judges should move,
 * In radiant rainbows vault the skies above ;
 * 1902, Sophocles and John Swinnerton Phillimore, Sophocles, page #185:
 * Profit away ! and traffic all you can,
 * Sardian electre (¹²⁵) and gold of Hindustan !

Noun: amber

 * 14th Century, John Wycliffe and his followers, The Holy Bible, Volume III., pages 501–502:
 * And y siȝ, and lo ! a whirle‐wynd cam fro the north, and a greet cloude, and fier wlappynge in, and briȝtnesse in the cumpas therof ; and as the licnesse of electre† fro the myddis therof, it, that is to saye, of the mydil of fijre, as a lickenesse of electre, that is, a metal of gold and syluere, cleerer than gold.