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
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
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 Henry Rider Haggard
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
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 Myrtle Reed
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