gemmy
Americanadjective
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having gems; set with gems.
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like a gem, especially in being bright, glittering, or sparkling.
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A gemmy, translucent, Sapphire cluster with thin hexagonal plates comprising a very sculptural specimen.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2012
The gemmy bridle glitter'd free, Like to some branch of stars we see Hung in the Golden Galaxy.
From Practice Book by Powers, Leland
The heroine is the gemmy character of the story; but, in that of the King so much license has been used as almost to defy its identification with history.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 489, May 14, 1831 by Various
You will grow weary of the grace of the palms, of the gemmy colors of the ever-clouded peaks, of the sight of the high woods made impenetrable by lianas and vines and serpents.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
We caught an apostolic boat-load of beauties fresh and blooming as Aurora, silver as the morning star, gemmy with eye-spots as a tiger-lily.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
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