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- adjective Resembling a
jewel or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Long, thin links of spicy sausage, or merguez, are nearly upstaged by the dreamy mashed potatoes and the jewellike cake of chopped tomato, eggplant and onion that round out the entree.
Another direction for U Street Corridor gains a generous French bistro 2010
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It serves to protect the highly sensitive jewellike glans nestled in its flaps, and to mute some of the sensations it receives given those eight thousand nerve endings, touching the clit directly can sometimes be painful.
The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping with Chicks Jen Sincero 2005
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It serves to protect the highly sensitive jewellike glans nestled in its flaps, and to mute some of the sensations it receives given those eight thousand nerve endings, touching the clit directly can sometimes be painful.
The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping with Chicks Jen Sincero 2005
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It serves to protect the highly sensitive jewellike glans nestled in its flaps, and to mute some of the sensations it receives given those eight thousand nerve endings, touching the clit directly can sometimes be painful.
The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping with Chicks Jen Sincero 2005
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A sprinkler turned lazily on the lawn, spinning out water that fell in jewellike droplets on thick grass.
Blood Hollow William Kent Krueger 2004
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A sprinkler turned lazily on the lawn, spinning out water that fell in jewellike droplets on thick grass.
Blood Hollow William Kent Krueger 2004
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One of the marvels connected with the jewellike prawns associated with sea anemones is the power they possess of controlling their colours to match those of their hosts.
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Alien expressions, fashioned out of loose, sickly white flesh and jewellike orbs and mouths that seemed to harbor swarms of tiny tentacles.
A CALL TO DARKNESS MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 2000
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A single moon only shone on Krynn and for some reason that the wise among the elves could not explain, the pale light of this single moon glittered in each jewellike a staring eye, bringing no light at all to the Tower, so that the elves were forced to resort to candles and torches.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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It is a paradox that your naturally loving and innocent spirits were born onto your magnificent, jewellike planet, only to surrender to the essentially ugly, paralyzing manifestations of pervasive negativity.
Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996
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