jewelry
nounverbcommon in dialogue
To make jewelry.
noun
- 1
Variant of jewelleryUS standard spelling of jewellery.
“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.
verb
- 1
rareTo make jewelry.
He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.
The members of this family have an honest and honorable record in their dealings and relations in every way, preferring the peaceful calling of farming, poultrying, and jewelrying; with a home of many comforts and enjoyments.
- 2
rareTo adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
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.
Forms
- plural
- jewelries
- past tense
- jewelried
- past participle
- jewelried
- present participle
- jewelrying
- third person singular
- jewelries