Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Margarite

Margarite , noun

[Latin margarita, Greek {not transcribed} a pearl; compare French marguerite.]

1.
A pearl. [Obsolete] — Peacham
2.
(Mineralogy) A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster.