Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Decorated with or as if with jewels.
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- adjective covered in
jewels , especially asdecoration - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bejewel .
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Examples
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There is no one like her for writing the kind of bejeweled rapier of a sentence that pins a novel by its throat.
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Or a member of the Wall Street elite stepping into his chauffer-driven luxury sedan en route to a splashy event with his bejeweled wife?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Or a member of the Wall Street elite stepping into his chauffer-driven luxury sedan en route to a splashy event with his bejeweled wife?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Called Arnolfini, in honor of the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, the bejeweled chandelier, rendered out of glass containers, including egg cups and poison bottles, suggests a phantasmagoric Still Life painting.
Out of the Gallery and Into the Home J. S. Marcus 2011
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Maybe in each case we cannot know; but certainly we can make a reasonably plausible and well-informed guess about what craftsmen aimed for in a more general sense: (1) bejeweled Portuguese breast ornaments of this type were evidently worn pinned or sewn to a gown; (2) Chinese vases of this type were generally equipped with identical rings suspended from each handle.
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At the intimate end of the exhibition's spectrum is a bejeweled 14th-century French reliquary pendant that opens to reveal multiple leaves with gorgeously colored enamel scenes from the life of Christ, for contemplation by the magnificent object's wealthy owner.
Where Revered Relics Repose Karen Wilkin 2011
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Sarah Palin stopped by the Long Island Association's annual meeting in New York wearing an unassuming black suit paired with a bejeweled American flag bracelet and -- the kicker, quite literally -- leopard print, strappy, high heels.
Sarah Palin's Leopard-Print Heels: Hit Or Miss? (PHOTOS, POLL) 2011
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Recently on Offworld: an ode to the jetpack, rusted steampunk adventures, Tetris bejeweled
Boing Boing 2009
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Their exquisitely bejeweled faces appear in oil paintings at performance halls across India.
Top 5 must-sees at the Kennedy Center's Maximum India festival 2011
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Was this bejeweled breast ornament routinely pinned or sewn to a gown?
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