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Jewel vs Newel - What's the difference?

jewel | newel |


As a proper noun jewel

is from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.

As a noun newel is

(architecture) a central pillar around which a staircase spirals or newel can be (obsolete) a novelty; a new thing.

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