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Like a diadem
Answer for the clue "Like a diadem ", 8 letters:
jewelled
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. adorn or decorate with precious stones; "jeweled dresses" [syn: bejewel ] [also: jewelling , jewelled ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
jeweled \jeweled\ jewelled \jewelled\adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins. Syn: beaded, beady, bejewelled, bejeweled, bespangled, gemmed, sequined, spangled, spangly.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context chiefly of a watch English) set with jewels alt. (context chiefly of a watch English) set with jewels
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adam had run knee-deep in silver ducats and jewelled goblets full of pearls! ▪ And backs off quick, before the long-suffering pimp shows up, and knocks the girl into shape with his jewelled fists. ▪ And the long, jewelled ...
Usage examples of jewelled.
The same panic that she had experienced in the jewelled aviary began to mount.
And raising the corpse of the monkey in his jewelled hands, he laid it in her arms like a chrisom child, and bending the golden head, bowed.
With ponderous care, de Nore let Gorony pour wine from the cruet into his great, jewelled chalice, then blessed the water and added but a few drops.
There were squadrons of jet-black drongos with long forked tails, starlings of iridescent malachite green, rollers and bee-eaters in jewelled colours of turquoise and sunlight yellow, carmine and purple, jinking and whirling in full flight, ecstatic with greed.
There were jewelled stars and enamelled crosses worn on sashes of brilliant silk, and all lit by the glittering chandeliers which had been hoisted to the ceiling with their burdens of fine white candles.
There were also many palms, some of them more than one hundred feet high, and the largest and most beautiful tree ferns that I ever saw, about which hung clouds of jewelled honeysuckers and great-winged butterflies.
At the back, the iconostas looms up in the twilight shot through with rays like a golden and jewelled wall between the faithful and the priests of the sanctuary.
Where they had left Izzard, a monstrous bonfire was burning, painting the sky with jewelled radiance.
They were armed with bow and lance and long-barrelled jezails with curved and jewelled butts.
The Killadar, who was dressed for battle in a clean white robe girdled by a red cummerbund and hung with a jewelled scabbard, looked horrified.
She leant back in the luxurious lounge with her eyes bent on her jewelled fan, and seemed lost in thought.
He put his unhealthy fingers on the jewelled hilt of an ornate but virtually useless poignard and squared his shoulders.
The spokes of iron were rusted, but the gold and jewelled bands glittered like constellations.
Like any other Architect of Tannahill, he would carry this little jewelled box with him wherever he went.
Such, however, as he could make out were richly attired in doublets of silk and satin, while their rich velvet mantles, plumed and jewelled caps, and long rapiers, were carried by their servants.