Another word for jewelry
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Noun
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- inexpensive costume jewelry
- gimcracks collectively
- showy but cheap and useless decoration, effects, etc.
- plural form of gewgaw
- plural form of bangle
- Jewelry made from inexpensive metals and imitation gems or semiprecious stones.
- A collection of trinkets or jewelry.
- Decoration.
- Pretentious, showy finery.
- Pretentious elegance; ostentation.
- Something trivial or nonessential.
- plural form of adornment
- plural form of trinket
- plural form of bauble
- A lustrous white, ductile, malleable metallic element, occurring both uncombined and in ores such as argentite, having the highest thermal and electrical conductivity of the metals. It is highly valued for jewelry, tableware, and other ornamental use and is widely used in coinage, photography, dental and soldering alloys, electrical contacts, and printed circuits. Atomic number 47; atomic weight 107.868; melting point 961.78°C; boiling point 2,162°C; specific gravity 10.50 (20°C); valence 1, 2.
- This metallic element as a commodity or medium of exchange.
- Coins made of this metallic element.
- A soft, yellow, corrosion-resistant element, the most malleable and ductile metal, occurring in veins and alluvial deposits and recovered by mining, panning, or sluicing. A good thermal and electrical conductor, gold is generally alloyed to increase its strength, and it is used as a common monetary standard, in jewelry, for decoration, and as a plated coating on a wide variety of electrical and mechanical components. Atomic number 79; atomic weight 196.967; melting point 1,064.2°C; boiling point 2,856.0°C; specific gravity 19.3; valence 1, 3.
- Coinage made of this element.
- A gold standard.
- plural form of precious stone
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