Definitions

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  • adjective Without jewels.

Etymologies

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jewel +‎ -less

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Examples

  • All her hair was swept back in one great mass and held by an ivory comb; a white cloak wrapped her white array; she was jewelless and stripped of lustre; she was like pearl, milky as a shell, white as the moonlight that followed in her wake.

    Dark Ways 1863

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