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To dress adorn deck or supply with jewels as a dress a sword hilt or a watch to bespangle as with jewels to bejewel...
jeweled
covered with beads or jewels or sequins...
Jeweler
One who makes or deals in jewels precious stones and similar ornaments...
Bejewel
To ornament with a jewel or with jewels to spangle...
Heirloom
Heirloom [fr. h'res, Lat., heir, and geloma, Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, coat armor set up in a church, or a tombstone erected there, which go to the heir, together with the inheritance. The ancient jewels of the Crown are heirlooms. Heirlooms strictly so called are now rarely met with. See Williams on personal Property; Co. Litt. 18b, 185b; 2 Bl. Com. 428.The term 'heirlooms' is often applied in practice to the case where certain chattels--for example, pictures, plate, or furniture--are directed by will or settlement to follow the limitations thereby made of some family mansion or estate. But the word is not then employed in its strict and proper sense, nor is the disposition itself beyond a certain point effectual; for the Articles will, in such case, belong absolutely to the first person who, under the limitations of the settlement, becomes entitled to the real estate for a vested estate of inheritance; see Portman v. Viscount Po...
floater
floater 1 from the notion that the policy “floats” with the goods it insures, wherever they might be located : a policy or supplemental attachment to a policy insuring specific items of personal property (as jewelry or art) ;specif : a policy of insurance to protect against loss or damage of goods in transit or goods (as jewels) naturally subject to use in various places called also floating policy 2 : a debt security that yields an indexed variable rate of interest ;esp : floating rate note at note ...
bespangled
covered with beads or jewels or sequins...
Bezel
The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object as the crystal of a watch in the cavity in which it is set...
Bijou
A trinket a jewel a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship...
Cameo
A carving in relief esp one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment or like...
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