bijouteries

Although bordering on twenty years of age, he reasoned like a little child -- amused himself like a boarding-school miss, with gilt-edged story-books and costly bijouteries for presents to his acquaintances, and felt as much pride in never knowing his lessons (that being vulgar in his eyes) as ever his great-grandfather felt while winning those laurels which have rendered the name illustrious.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860