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Noun
jewellery (usually uncountable, plural jewelleries)
- (British, Canadian) Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
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1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Fate of the Artemis:- “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
- She had more jewellery ornamented about her than any three ladies needed.
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personal ornamentation
- Arabic: مُجَوْهَرَات f pl (mujawharāt)
- Armenian: ոսկեղեն (hy) (oskełen)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 首飾, 首饰 (sau2 sik1)
- Mandarin: 首飾 (zh), 首饰 (zh) (shǒushi)
- Czech: klenoty m pl
- Danish: smykker n pl
- Finnish: korut (fi) pl
- French: joaillerie (fr) f, bijoux (fr) m pl
- Galician: xoia (gl) f
- German: **** (de) m, Juwelen (de) n pl
- Greek: κοσμήματα (el) f pl (kosmímata) (pl. of κόσμημα (el) n (kósmima))
- Hindi: जेवर (hi) (jevar), जवाहरात (hi) (javāhrāt)
- Hungarian: ékszer (hu)
- Italian: gioielleria (it) f (for jewellery made of real gold, silver and gemstone), bigiotteria (it) f (for jewellery made of cheaper materials)
- Japanese: 装身具 (そうしんぐ, sōshingu), 宝飾品 (ほうしょくひん, hōshokuhin), ジュエリー (juerī)
- Korean: 보석류 (boseongnyu)
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- Lao: ຖະໜິມ (tha nim)
- Macedonian: накит m (nakit)
- Maori: whakapīwari
- Marathi: दागिने (dāgine), दागदागिने (dāgdāgine), जडजवाहिर (jaḍajvāhir)
- Navajo: ílį́įgo naalyéhé
- Pashto: ګاڼه f (gānna), كالي m pl (kāli)
- Polish: biżuteria (pl) f
- Portuguese: joias (pt) f pl
- Russian: ювелирные изделия n pl (juvelirnyje izdelija), драгоценности f pl (dragocennosti), бижутерия (ru) f (bižuterija), украшения (ru) n pl (ukrašenija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: накит m
- Roman: nakit (sh) m
- Slovak: klenoty m pl
- Slovene: nakit m
- Spanish: joyería (es) f, joyas (es) f pl, alhajas (es) f pl
- Turkish: ziynet (tr), süs eşyası, takı (tr)
- Welsh: gemwaith
- Yiddish: צירונג f (tsirung)
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