Meanings
alternative Canada US sometimes jewelryless
- not comparableWithout jewellery.
And a jewelleryless, makeupless face is not made any more recognisably female by being over five feet from the ground or installed above a flat chest, either.
2001 June 26, Margaret, “Eindhoven meet June 16, 2001, reality#23653b”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Aug 20263 more examples
The groups I was in never went so far as to require a specific uniform, as the Pharisees did, but I must admit the lipstickless, jewelleryless, skirt-dragging Bible-college girls were easy to spot.
1990 [1979], Philip Yancey, “Legalism: Why do ‘good’ Christians make me feel so far from God?”, in Tim Stafford, Philip Yancey, If I’m Honest […], 1st British edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Frameworks, →ISBN, page 48At the 1985 Bermuda Bowl in Sao Paulo, players were advised to stay within the hotel complex, which was cut off from the outside world by having security guards at the entrances. Members of the Australian Women's Team were told that if they strayed outside the hotel complex, a finger might be cut off in order to steal a ring, for example. When two of our players did risk a jewelleryless walk, they felt that it was most venturesome thing to do.
2001 September 23, Peter Gill, “is Indonesia safe?”, in rec.games.bridge (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Aug 2026A’la Hadrat […] has stated: ‘In fact, it is also Sunnah to keep the unmarried girls adorned with jewellery and nice clothes, as [in this way] marriage proposals for them are received. In fact, it is Makruh [disliked] for a woman to remain completely jewelleryless despite being capable of wearing it, as it is resemblance to men.[’]
2017 December, “Shar’i Rulings Related to Islamic Sisters”, in Faizan-e-Madinah (Magazine), special Rabi-ul-Awwal edition, page 63, column 2
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