Obs. [F. cestrin ‘a kind of yellow stone whereof beads are made’ (Cotgr., 1611).
The original of the passage in Rabelais does not speak of it as a stone, and French writers have suggested that it may have been the resin of the Socotrine aloe, med.L. aloes cicatrina.]
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, II. xxi. Her Patenotres … made of a kind of yellow stone called Cestrin.
