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English
Noun
jewelry (usually uncountable, plural jewelries)
- US standard spelling of jewellery.
Verb
jewelry (third-person singular simple present jewelries, present participle jewelrying, simple past and past participle jewelried) (rare)
- (intransitive) To make jewelry.
1897 August 10, Ephraim Cutter, “Fatty Ills and Their Masquerades”, in The Medical Age, volume 15, number 15:He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.
1991, Hugh M. Addington, History of the Family of Addington in the United States and England, page 37:The members of this family have an honest and honorable record in their dealings and relations in every way, preferring the peaceful calling of farming, poultrying, and jewelrying; with a home of many comforts and enjoyments.
- (intransitive) To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
1988, Helen Khal, The Woman Artist in Lebanon:The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces.
Usage notes
- Also used in Canada, but less common there than jewellery.