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bejewel, v.|bɪˈdʒ(j)uːɪl|
[f. be- 6 + jewel n.]
trans. To deck or adorn with or as with jewels; to spangle. Also fig.
1557North Gueuara's Diall Pr. (1582) 387 b, The gorgeous courtyer, bedeckt with gold, be buttoned, & be iewelled. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 21 Those priests..Bejewel all their necks. 1877Browning La Saisiaz 588 Laughter so bejewels Learning.
Hence beˈjewelled ppl. a.
1848Fraser's Mag. XXXVII. 404 Bearing in his hand a bejewelled club. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i. i. 2 The white bejewelled fingers of an English countess. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment xii. 168 Now the men would be rising..with smoking breath and bejewelled eyebrows. |