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jewelrying

jewelrying is the present participle and gerund of jewelry.

Meaning of jewelry

Verb

jewelry (third-person singular simple present jewelries, present participle jewelrying, simple past and past participle jewelried)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To make jewelry.
    • He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.1897 August 10, Ephraim Cutter, “Fatty Ills and Their Masquerades”, in The Medical Age, volume 15, number 15
  2. (intransitive, rare) To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
    • The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces.1988, Helen Khal, The Woman Artist in Lebanon

Questions about jewelrying

What is jewelrying the present participle and gerund of?
Jewelrying is the present participle and gerund of jewelry.

Words near jewelrying in the dictionary

  1. jewelried
  2. jewelries
  3. jewelry
  4. jewelry box
  5. jewelry boxes
  6. jewelrying
  7. jewelryless
  8. jewelrylike
  9. jewels
  10. jewels in the crown
  11. jewels in the Liberal crown

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