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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

jewelless en · ADJ

Etymology

From jewel + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without jewels.
    • […] arraying her maid gorgeously, put all the jewels on her and sent her into the casino or the ballroom or the dining-room — wherever it was — and she herself followed, in — let us hope — plain, jewelless black silk, with her lovely flesh showing voluptuously against it. 1913, Theodore Dreiser, A Traveler at Forty: