jewelry

plural jewelries

1. USstandarduncountableusuallyUS 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.

   2010 February 12, Roberta Smith, “Visual Culture Out of Africa”, in The New York Times

present singular third person jewelries · participle present jewelrying · participle past jewelried · past jewelried

1. intransitiverareTo make jewelry.

   He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.

   1897 August 10, Ephraim Cutter, “Fatty Ills and Their Masquerades”, in The Medical Age, volume 15, number 15

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   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.

   1991, Hugh M. Addington, History of the Family of Addington in the United States and England, page 37

2. intransitiverareTo 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.

   1988, Helen Khal, The Woman Artist in Lebanon