shop that sells jewellery' name='description'> jeweller's - definition and meaning

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  • noun A shop that sells jewellery

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Examples

  • Around the corner from the JET model shop, at Whaddon's jeweller's and gift shop, sisters Jan, Ann and Lynda Whaddon say they suspect the local authority does not care about this part of the town.

    Welsh high streets hit a low ebb 2012

  • It was between about nine and 10 at night," said Yilmaz Karagoz, sitting in his coffee shop next to a jeweller's shop that has been shuttered since Sunday when the rioting began and a pharmacy that closed a day after."

    London riots: 'People are fighting back. It's their neighbourhoods at stake' 2011

  • Rice heightens aspects such as the jealous pangs felt by Genevieve's mum, who has her own eyes on the jeweller's assets.

    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - review 2011

  • John Henn outside his jeweller's in Wolverhampton.

    Victims' voices: rioters 'broke every window on our street' 2011

  • In Pathé's first exciting scoop in 1911, Winston Churchill, then the home secretary, was minded to wear a silk top hat to the Sidney Street siege, where he took it upon himself to direct police operations against armed Latvian robbers holed up in a jeweller's shop it included holding back the fire brigade and wisely letting the thieves burn to death when the building went up in flames.

    Rewind TV: Ocean Giants; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Story of British Pathé: the Birth of the News; Wilfred – review 2011

  • Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street.

    How power, money and art are shifting to the East End 2011

  • I regret the nailclippers and the jeweller's screwdrivers and the knitting that I have to leave home when I get called for jury duty.

    Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions 2010

  • But worse things were to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller's wife's ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party -- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • But worse things were to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller's wife's ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party -- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other.

    Mikhail A. Bulgakov - Master and Margarita (Book Review) 2008

  • Any day now the 11,000th visitor will wander into a small shopping arcade off the bedraggled main street of Sittingbourne in Kent, between the cash-for-gold jeweller's and the discount shop selling bales of cheap loo rolls, set down their shopping bags, and watch the history of Kent being rewritten.

    How Sittingbourne discovered an archaeological treasure trove 2010

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