Cultured Pearl

A cultured pearl is a pearl created by a pearl farmer under controlled conditions.

Read more about Cultured Pearl:  Development of A Pearl, The Pearl Industry

Famous quotes containing the words cultured and/or pearl:

    “Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
    Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
    And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)