bijouterie
Americannoun
noun
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jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
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a collection of such jewellery
Etymology
Origin of bijouterie
1805–15; < French, equivalent to bijou bijou + -terie, extended form of -erie -ery
Example Sentences
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He saw a whole street of Florence, including the quarters of Donatello and Bronzino, torn down to make room for a cheap-jack row of shops devoted to "bijouterie and parfumerie."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Palais Royale is a heavenly place, so full of bijouterie and lovely things that I’m nearly distracted because I can’t buy them.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
She ran up to me with affectionate greetings, and united in our raptures over the glittering bijouterie.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Oh, you fancy I am going to ask you for some trifling affair—a horse, a poodle, or some bit of glittering bijouterie.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
On the many little tables were scattered old keepsakes, "bijouterie" of every kind, dragon china, coloured stones and even an ebony box with sea-shells.
From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Sir Hugh Walpole
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