Crossword clues for jewelry
jewelry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jewelry \Jew"el*ry\ (j[=u]"[e^]l*r[y^] or j[udd]"[e^]l*r[y^]), n. [Cf. F. joaillerie.]
The art or trade of a jeweler.
--Cotgrave.Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., juelrye "precious ornaments, jewel work," from Old French juelerye, from jouel (see jewel). In modern use it can be analyzed as jewel + -ery or jeweler + -y (1). Also jewellery.\n\nThe longer is the commercial & popular form, the shorter the rhetorical & poetic. [Fowler]
Wiktionary
n. (label en American spelling Canadian spelling) (alternative spelling of jewellery English)
WordNet
n. an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) [syn: jewellery]
Wikipedia
Jewelry was a South Korean girl group formed in 2001 by Star Empire Entertainment. The group was the longest-running Korean girl group (with more than 2 members), surpassing super-group Baby V.O.X., until their disbandment in 2015.
Usage examples of "jewelry".
Alake, who is usually fond of showing off any new jewelry, made no reply and averted her face.
Her jewelry was Bakelite, two chunky bracelets that clattered on her narrow wrist.
Security Team Two reporting two possibles have just entered a jewelry store on the fourteenth block of Bleaker Street.
She found beauty in the glitter of gun cartridges worn as jewelry and in the subsonic murmur of relaxation subliminals piped in over the sound system under the familiar beat of a bod anthem.
He shot out a window in a jewelry store, adding another siren to the tumult of sounds on the street and bolstering the chaos.
Her hair was piled up on her head and held in place by silver combs and a length of silk, in a style worn by many Busk women, and she wore no jewelry apart from long silver earrings.
Why anyone would want to name her child after a Yankee jewelry store mystified Cig, but then why anyone would keep Tiffany as a receptionist also mystified her.
Squatting, crossed-legged, in the middle of this cushion was an extremely corpulent yellow man, who, except for the scarlet cincture about his loins, was clad entirely in jewelry jewels blazed from the rings which all but concealed his pudgy fingers and toes, and flashed from his golden anklets, bracelets, armlets, and necklaces.
Squatting, crossed-legged, in the middle of this cushion was an extremely corpulent yellow man, who, except for the scarlet cincture about his loins, was clad entirely in jewelry.
She liked cheap jewelry, too, of the plastic, clunky variety, the weight of a dozen toy chains around her neck, arms rattling in bracelets from wrist to elbow.
I found more cash, more stamps, more coins, and a fair amount of jewelry, including the watch and earrings from the Colcannon burglary.
There are houses that hold fifty in Tardengk, owned by one, clothes that we would put only on a demarch at a festival being worn by ordinary citizens every day, jewelry I would not have dreamed possible.
His gift to Kaliathe duplo jewelry Magically transformed into a ruby-studded gold filagree necklacewas worthy of a princess.
And when the first frump blast exploded a glass counter full of jewelry to oblivion, the place became a madhouse of screaming, writhing insanity.
All dremecks wore the same coveralls over their wrinkled bodies and they all wore some sort of glitzy jewelry.