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Jewellery vs Bijou - What's the difference?

jewellery | bijou |

As nouns the difference between jewellery and bijou

is that jewellery is collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones while bijou is jewel.

As an adjective bijou is

small, little (often implying affection)

jewellery

English

(wikipedia jewellery)

Etymology

From the word jewel, which was anglicized from the (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (US, Canada) jewelry

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
    She had more jewellery ornamented about her than any three ladies needed.

    Synonyms

    * tom (Cockney rhyming slang''), tomfoolery (''Cockney rhyming slang ); see also

    Related terms

    * jewel * jeweler, jeweller

    bijou

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • jewel
  • a piece of jewelry, a trinket
  • a small intricately made metalworking

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)

    Etymology 2

    Borrowed from (etyl), ultimately from (etyl) Alan D. Corré, "Polari Words from Lingua Franca" in: A Glossary of Lingua Franca . 5th Edition, 2005

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Polari) small, little (often implying affection)
  • * 1968 Kenneth Horne, "Bona Prods" in: Round the Horne
    • You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.
  • * 1997 , Ian Lucas, "The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" in: Anna Livia, Kira Hall (editors), Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality , page 91
    • We, the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and the Gathered Faithful, do hereby invoke the spirit of our beloved Muffin the Mule, to recognize the bona work of Mr. Derek Jarman in promulgating Universal Joy [...] in his bijou masterpiecettes[.]
  • * 2012 , Paul, "Bijou Polari Appette pre-varda’d" in: Gay History (05/08/2012)
    • Polari, used for decades by gay men, actors, and theatre performers and which famously appeared on primetime radio show Round The Horne, has been brought up-to-date with a bijou iPhone appette.
  • (of a residence) small and elegant
  • intricate; finely made

    • Usage notes

    Often used with -ette on the noun that it describes, as in the quotations given above, and bijou problemette.

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