v. [f. BE- 6 + JEWEL sb.] trans. To deck or adorn with or as with jewels; to spangle. Also fig.

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1557.  North, trans. Gueuara’s Diall Pr. (1582), 387 b. The gorgeous courtyer, bedeckt with gold, be buttoned, & be iewelled.

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1647.  R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 21. Those priests … Bejewel all their necks.

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1878.  Browning, La Saisiaz, 588. Laughter so bejewels Learning.

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  Hence Bejewelled ppl. a.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. i. 2. The white bejewelled fingers of an English countess.

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