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Definition of Bejewel
1. Verb. Adorn or decorate with precious stones. "Jeweled dresses"
Generic synonyms: Adorn, Beautify, Decorate, Embellish, Grace, Ornament
Derivative terms: Jewel, Jeweler, Jeweler, Jeweller, Jeweller, Jewellery, Jewelry
Definition of Bejewel
1. v. t. To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.
Definition of Bejewel
1. Verb. To decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bejewel
1. to adorn with jewels [v -ELED, -ELING, -ELS or -ELLED, -ELLING, -ELS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bejewel
Literary usage of Bejewel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"They throw back the sunlight as with points of flume, and they bejewel the masses
of bathers as if they were great or little balls of shining gold. ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1843)
"The King paid nine thousand pounds for the hire of jewels; indeed, last time it
cost my father fourteen hundred to bejewel mj Lady Orford. ..."
3. The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1910)
"As beauty in death's cerement shrouds, And stars bejewel night, God's splendors
live in dim heart- clouds, And suffering worketh might. ..."
4. Forces in Fiction: And Other Essays by Richard Burton (1902)
"... let him, in addition to human interest and technical structure, bedeck the
play in the fair garments of poetry, bejewel it, as it were, with the ideal, ..."
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