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bijouterie

bijouterie noun: small articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.

Noun

bijouterie (usually uncountable, plural bijouteries)

  1. (usually) Small articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.
    • Is not Howel and James's shop filled with all that human art can invent, or human taste display—bijouterie touched with present sentiment, or radiant with future triumph?1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 87
    • The finer kinds of perfumery, prettily cut-glass bottles, and all sorts of bijouterie for the toilet or drawing-room table, good plaister casts, and in fact every thing ornamental, as far as the pecuniary means can afford, should be taken.1850, The Anglo-hindoostanee handbook

bijouterie meaning in Tamil

bijouterie in Tamil

நகைக்கடை

Examples of bijouterie in a sentence

  • Simonton's brilliant display of bronze, painted china, and pretty bijouterie; the exquisite laces of Forrest and Allen; and the large collection of preparations for the toilet exhibited by Fred.1853, William Frederick Wakeman, Dublin: What's to be Seen, and how to See it:
  • The women cultivate and plant the ground, and after feeding their husbands, expend the surplus products in the beads and baubles which compose their bijouterie.1861, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London:

Forms of bijouterie

pluralbijouteries
alternative formbijoutry

Origin of bijouterie

From French bijouterie.

Questions about bijouterie

What does bijouterie mean?
Bijouterie means small articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.
What is bijouterie in Tamil?
Bijouterie in Tamil is நகைக்கடை. See Bijouterie meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bijouterie in a sentence?
Simonton's brilliant display of bronze, painted china, and pretty bijouterie; the exquisite laces of Forrest and Allen; and the large collection of preparations for the toilet exhibited by Fred.
What part of speech is bijouterie?
Bijouterie is a noun.
What is the plural of bijouterie?
The plural of bijouterie is bijouteries.

Words near bijouterie in the dictionary

  1. Bijnor
  2. bijou
  3. bijou problemette
  4. bijou problemettes
  5. bijous
  6. bijouterie
  7. bijouteries
  8. bijoutries
  9. bijoutry
  10. bijoux
  11. bijoux problemettes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bijouterie (page history and authors); bijouterie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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