CAMEO, CAMAIEU OR CAMAYEU, noun A peculiar sort of onyx; also, a stone on which are found various figures and representations of landscapes, a kind of lusus naturae, exhibiting pictures without painting. The word is said to be the oriental camehuia, a name given to the onyx, when they find, in preparing it, another color; as who should say, another color.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.