costume jewellery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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On display are also make-up kits, sneakers, handbags and costume jewellery.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
Its owner, a Northumberland woman in her 70s, took it to be valued along with costume jewellery she bought over many years at car boot sales.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2021
Good | Van Badham It was the former PM himself saying that young women were now living in “the post-feminist period” – but open up that box and it was full of cheap costume jewellery.
From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2015
What does he really think about some hairy-footed halfling and a bunch of do-gooders throwing his best costume jewellery into a volcano?
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2015
Robin Cook used to buy large costume jewellery brooches for US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright every Christmas.
From BBC • May 14, 2013
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