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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gem .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with beads or jewels or sequins
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Examples
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“Look at this,” says my mother, holding up an elaborately gemmed and frilly princess gown.
Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011
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His rimed brows turned to cataracts as he whirled about; his mustache, still frozen, seemed gemmed with diamonds and turned the light in varicolored rays; while the flying feet slipped on the chunks of ice which rattled from his moccasins and German socks.
The Wife of a King 2010
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The roadway had become a flowing ribbon of silk, gemmed with yellow cat-like eyes that floated past wary and curious in their regard for him and his nervous horse.
CHAPTER II 2010
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“Look at this,” says my mother, holding up an elaborately gemmed and frilly princess gown.
Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011
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Then the light and the thought ceased to pulse beneath the tear-gemmed eyelids, and with a tired sigh of comfort he sank into sleep.
FINIS 2010
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His rimed brows turned to cataracts as he whirled about; his mustache, still frozen, seemed gemmed with diamonds and turned the light in varicolored rays; while the flying feet slipped on the chunks of ice which rattled from his moccasins and German socks.
The Wife of a King 2010
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Then he brushed away the frozen tears that gemmed his lashes.
FINIS 2010
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Then the light and the thought ceased to pulse beneath the tear-gemmed eyelids, and with a tired sigh of comfort he sank into sleep.
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She was wearing no high coronet of diamonds, she was encased in no gemmed stomacher, and they had girt her with no jewelled sword.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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She was wearing no high coronet of diamonds, she was encased in no gemmed stomacher, and they had girt her with no jewelled sword.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
hernesheir commented on the word gemmed
In heraldry, describing a ring or annulet set with a jewel of a different tincture. Also stoned or jewelled.
October 5, 2011