jewellery

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There might be jewellery, an antique or two. I can usually get $100 for a working fridge.

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an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)

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noun

an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jewellery.

noun

an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)

Example sentences

There might be jewellery, an antique or two. I can usually get $100 for a working fridge.

Don't forget that 80% of gold production is used in jewellery and industry, rather than bullion etc.

Or maybe his body jewellery needed to have puss and inflammation cleaned out if it on a regular basis.

A watch is more jewellery than timekeeping appliance.

I'd expect the "jewellery-grade" synthetic diamonds to have the same artificial inflation of price that we see in natural diamonds.

If you go into a jewellery shop and spend a lot of money on a Rolex but it turns out to be fake, then sure, it's probably fraud. But if you buy one out on the street for 10 bucks, then I hardly think it's fraud. But these things are independent of the physical form of the thing sold; it comes down to the understanding of what is being sold, as in a contract of sale, implicit or explicit.