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jewelry

UK/ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/US/ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/
nounB1Very common — you will meet it every day · #2,322 of 15,258neutral

Jewelry is beautiful expensive things like chains and stones that people wear. Fine jewelry, a piece of jewelry, wear jewelry.

This is the American spelling; British writing uses jewellery with the extra syllable, and both are correct in their own places. Gold is measured in carats out of twenty-four, so eighteen carat is three quarters gold. Costume jewelry uses cheap materials on purpose.

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Definitions of jewelry

  1. 1nounjewelryOrnaments worn on the body.B1

    “She keeps her rings and necklaces in a small wooden jewelry box.”

jewelry is an ornament.

Also accepted in games: jewellery

Where it comes from

  1. Old French

    juelerye

  2. Middle English

    juelrye

  3. English

    jewellery

  4. English, today

    jewelry

jewellery Middle English juelrye, from Old French juelerye, equivalent to jewel + -ery.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Clothes & Fashion

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jewelry in the wild

  • In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes.

    Casket (decorative box)

  • Art jewelry also has links to fine art and design.

    Art jewelry

  • From the Middle Ages through the early twentieth century, memorial hair jewelry remained common.

    Hairwork

  • Other famous people who owned hair jewelry include Napoleon, Admiral Nelson, Queen Victoria and her large family, Christina Nilsson and Jenny Lind.

    Hairwork

  • Shell jewelry is jewelry that is primarily made from seashells, the shells of marine mollusks.

    Shell jewelry

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the juelerye family

jewelryjewellery

jewelry — used about once every 304 pages · #2,322 · point at the bar for the others