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单词 pierrerie
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pierrerien.

Brit. /ˈpjɛːrəri/, U.S. /ˈpjɛrəri/
Forms: late Middle English perrere, late Middle English perrierie (in a late copy), late Middle English–1500s pyerrerye, 1800s– pierrerie; Scottish pre-1700 pierrery, pre-1700 pyerrery, 1800s pierrerie.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pierrerie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French pierrerie precious stones (see perry n.2). In later use reborrowed < French pierrerie.The following apparently shows an isolated use of the word in sense ‘stones’ (which is apparently not paralleled in French):1731 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng. II. 643 The Country hereabouts is so thinly peopled, by reason of its Barrenness, and the wrong Sort of Pierrérie, that it cannot carry off the Sugars and other things brought hither.
Now rare and historical.
Jewellery; (in plural) precious stones; = perry n.2 Also: †jewellery-making.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [noun]
jewelleryc1400
pierreriea1450
usker1536
lapidary1609
bijouterie1815
junk1911
tomfoolery1930
tom1955
a1450 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 17 (MED) God commanded to moyses þat he shulde..do shaape þe twelue stones be crafte of perrere.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xli. f. lxiiv/1 Vppon her was seen noo thynge but golde and syluer and ryche pyerrerye.
c1503 J. Younge Fyancells of Margaret in Leland's De Rebus Brit. Collectanea (1770) IV. 300 She..had on a ryche Coller of Pyerrery... Hys Churte was bordered of fyne Pierrery and Pearles.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1670 A sete rioll, Pight full of perrieris & of proude gemys.
1883 Gentleman's Mag. Jan.–June 589 Who, for instance, could divine that Perre-urigh meant adorned with precious stones or pierreries?
1991 J. Blair & N. Ramsay Eng. Medieval Industries vi. 151 Thomas the ‘Perler’ of London and John ‘Peremaker’ of York may respectively have sold pearls or their substitutes, and made pierrerie or artificial gems, but one cannot be certain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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