bijouterie
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French bijouterie.
Noun
[edit]bijouterie (usually uncountable, plural bijouteries)
- Small articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 87:
- Is not Howel and James's shop filled with all that human art can invent, or human taste display—bijouterie touched with present sentiment, or radiant with future triumph?
- 1850, The Anglo-hindoostanee handbook:
- The finer kinds of perfumery, prettily cut-glass bottles, and all sorts of bijouterie for the toilet or drawing-room table, good plaister casts, and in fact every thing ornamental, as far as the pecuniary means can afford, should be taken.
- 1853, William Frederick Wakeman, Dublin: What's to be Seen, and how to See it:
- The first objects to attract attention are the large stands in the centre of the hall containing Mr. Simonton's brilliant display of bronze, painted china, and pretty bijouterie; the exquisite laces of Forrest and Allen; and the large collection of preparations for the toilet exhibited by Fred. Lewis.
- 1861, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London:
- The women cultivate and plant the ground, and after feeding their husbands, expend the surplus products in the beads and baubles which compose their bijouterie.
Related terms
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bijouterie. Equivalent to bijou + -erie.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bijouterie f (plural bijouterieën)
- (countable) A jewellery shop, a jeweller's.
- (uncountable, countable) Jewellery, trinkets.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bijou (“piece of jewelry”) + -erie, with intrusive -t-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bijouterie f (plural bijouteries)
- jeweller's; jewellery shop
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bijouterie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]bijouterie f
- plural of bijouteria
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