JEWELLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jewelled mean? 

• JEWELLED (adjective)
  The adjective JEWELLED has 1 sense:

1. covered with beads or jewels or sequins

  Familiarity information: JEWELLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEWELLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with beads or jewels or sequins

Synonyms:

beady; gemmed; jeweled; jewelled; sequined; spangled; spangly

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

 Context examples 

“Ha, ha!” cried the pardoner, shaking a jewelled forefinger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were also chains and ornaments, some jewelled, but all of them old and stained.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Every woollen filament of our garments, every hair of our heads and faces, was jewelled with a crystal globule.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We look into the glittering windows of the jewellers' shops; and I show Sophy which of the diamond-eyed serpents, coiled up on white satin rising grounds, I would give her if I could afford it; and Sophy shows me which of the gold watches that are capped and jewelled and engine-turned, and possessed of the horizontal lever-escape-movement, and all sorts of things, she would buy for me if she could afford it; and we pick out the spoons and forks, fish-slices, butter-knives, and sugar-tongs, we should both prefer if we could both afford it; and really we go away as if we had got them!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He who carries himself best of the victors hath the prize, and he who is judged best of the other party hath a jewelled clasp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The top one I had drawn over her face to shelter it from the night, so I could see nothing but the vague shape of her, and her light-brown hair, escaped from the covering and jewelled with moisture from the air.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Any trifle will serve—a purse of gold, or even a jewelled goblet.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The most, however, were young and dandy archers, with fresh English faces, their beards combed out, their hair curling from under their close steel hufkens, with gold or jewelled earrings gleaming in their ears, while their gold-spangled baldrics, their silken belts, and the chains which many of them wore round their thick brown necks, all spoke of the brave times which they had had as free companions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)