jewel

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"I am not yet in condition for individual wagers, as my jewel is my fortune, till to-morrow at least.

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  1. noun A precious stone; a gem.
  2. noun A small natural or artificial gem used as a bearing in a watch.
  3. noun A costly ornament of precious metal or gems.
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  • "Only to ensure the safety of the jewel is your duty, Robert, not its future," his grandfather had made clear in his letter. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • He knew he could not hand over the jewel, nor keep it for himself, for this would go against his promise to Queen Mary, yet he would instantly be suspect when the jewel was missed. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • A young Englishman was identified as the jewel thief in the big hotels, and Interpol was on his track in Australia; a few of the missing stones, removed from their settings, were recovered in Italy. —  Maigret and the Saturday Caller - Georges Simenon - 87
  • This year - the 11th - the jewel is a black onyx and ruby slider worth about $1,700. —  Craig Daily Press stories
  • As she laid it upon the table, she noticed the caskets What are these, Madeleine?--jewel-cases They were my mother's diamonds. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
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  1. Middle English juel, from Anglo-Norman, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *iocāle, from neuter of *iocālis, of play, from Latin iocus, joke; see yek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English jewel, juwel,juel, jowel, jowelle = Dutchjuweel = Germanjuwel = Danish Swedish juvel, from Old French jouel, joel, joiel, later and modern F.joyau = Provencal joyel, joell = Sp.joyel = Italian giojello, a jewel; diminutive of OF.joie, goie, joy, pleasure (not found in the deflected sense ‘jewel’), = Spanish joya = Pg.joia, a jewel, (not found in the literally sense ‘joy’), = It gioja, joy also a jewel, from Latin gaudium, joy, Middle Latin a bead on a rosary, plural gaudia, beads: see joy, gaud, and gaudy. The Middle Latin form would be reg. *gaudiale, or *gaudiellum; but, through a misunderstanding of the Roman forms (which were taken to represent L. jocus, a jest, later Old French jeu, ju, etc.), the Middle Latin appears as jocale.
 

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