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Jewelry
noun, verb
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Noun
- 1 US standard spelling of jewellery. US, alt-of, standard, uncountable, usually
"“The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design."
- 2 an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) wordnet
Verb
- 1 To make jewelry. intransitive, rare
"He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring."
- 2 To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry. intransitive, rare
"The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces."
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