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
And not contented with plenty for the present, they carried away my gemmy worked silk garters, and half a dozen new minuets I had just got, to serve, I suppose, as provision for the winter.
From Threads of Grey and Gold by Reed, Myrtle
His draughtsmanship displays an agreeable sketchiness; his colouring a graceful gemmy brightness and a glow of sunny gold.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
"Is a rattle-snake accountable?" asked the stranger with such a preternaturally cold, gemmy glance out of his pellucid blue eye, that he seemed more a metaphysical merman than a feeling man; "is a rattle-snake accountable?"
From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman
The Night arose in strength and shook a golden dew of stars from the tresses of her streaming clouds, till the wonderful deep heavens sparkled with a myriad gemmy points.
From Mr. Meeson's Will by Haggard, Henry Rider
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