rhinestone
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of rhinestone
1885–90; Rhine + stone (translation of French caillou du Rhin )
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"Not to mention, all those heavy rhinestone outfits, the big hair, my big… uh, personality," she joked.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
Ms. Kobielski’s photos are highly saturated, with daytime flash manufacturing brilliance against silk organza and rhinestone jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
A woman, in a rhinestone shirt, told me that she wanted to convene her fellow cyclists to whizz by the gulleys and alleyways around Tucson, searching for clues in the muck.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
Roan’s fiery hair is piled in a foot-high bouffant above a rhinestone tiara, her face layered in kabuki-like powder.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
"Or someone could have planted the rhinestone there to make him look guilty," Nancy pointed out.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
She’s even applied her own rhinestones to her outfits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Ms. Parton recounts all this in somewhat Hallmarkian prose, though there are rhinestones in the mix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
The latest ad, released Tuesday, features Beyoncé in a curly blonde bob wearing head-to-toe denim embellished with rhinestones.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2025
It has a constellation of green and pink rhinestones all over, against bursts of bright red stitching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
Not Zahara, who wears pink shirts with rhinestones and loves, loves, loves Katy Perry.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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