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Ornamentation vs Jewellery - What's the difference?

ornamentation | jewellery |

As nouns the difference between ornamentation and jewellery

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

ornamentation

English

Noun

(ornamentations)
  • Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
  • The act or process of decorating etc.
  • 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.
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  • , 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