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Jeweled

adjective
1.
Covered with beads or jewels or sequins.  Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly.



Jewel

verb
(past & past part. jeweled or jewelled; pres. part. jeweling or jewelling)
1.
Adorn or decorate with precious stones.  Synonym: bejewel.



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"Jeweled" Quotes from Famous Books



... even crowned: "the jeweled crown shines on a menial's head." But, really, that is "un peu fort"; and the mob of spectators might raise a scruple whether our friend the jackdaw upon the throne, and the dauphin himself, were not grazing the shins of treason. For the dauphin could not lend more ...
— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey

... his lamp, and wrinkling his forehead into locks and keys of puzzle, but using violence to his own mind alone. And I was the more ashamed when, instead of resenting my intrusion, he came to meet me, and led me to his chair, and placed the jeweled trinket in my hand, and said, "My dear, I give it up. I was wrong in taking it away from you. You must ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore

... the Heavies, men in the Scots Greys, men in the Horse Artillery, men in all the Arms and all the Regiments that had sent their first riders to try for the Blue Ribbon, were backing their horses with crackers, and jotting down figure after figure, with jeweled pencils, in dainty books, taking long odds with the fields. Carriages were standing in long lines along the course, the stands were filled with almost as bright a bevy of fashionable loveliness as the Ducal brings together under the park ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

... transactions in which the Semitic Dictator of Hungary, Kuhn, or Cohen, and Braunstein (Trotzky) of Petrograd, took an active part. The former is said to have offered for sale the historic crown of St. Stephen of Hungary—which to him was but a plain gold headgear adorned with precious stones and a jeweled cross—to an old curiosity dealer of Munich,[278] and when solemnly protesting that he was living only for the Soviet Republic and was ready to die for it, he was actively engaged in smuggling out of Hungary into Switzerland fifty million kronen ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... dagger! jeweled-handled and richly wrought—such as Lanty had never looked upon before. The hilt was studded with gems, and the blade, which had a cutting edge, was damascened in blue and gold. Her soft eyes reflected the brilliant ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte


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