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jewellery

/ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/

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What does jewellery mean?

noun

  1. Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
  2. (informal) Any tools, instruments, devices, etc., placed within a drill pipe.
  3. The shop from which a jeweller trades or makes jewellery

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒuː(ə)lɹi/

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‘Miss Spenlow endeavoured,’ said Miss Murdstone, ‘to bribe me with kisses, work-boxes, and small articles of jewellery--that, of course, I pass over.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
Above all there was a case of jewellery, containing four heavy gold bracelets and several lockets and rings, all of fine quality and manufacture.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
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According to the story told him by Butler, the latter had arrived in Dunedin with a quantity of jewellery he had stolen in Australia.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
Lydgate had really felt this point of the jewellery very bitter to himself; but he had overcome the feeling by severe argument.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
They also bought as much as they could conveniently carry of plate and expensive jewellery, and sent it secretly away to England or to Holland.
Charles MackayMemoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #636