bijouterieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French bijouterie.

名詞

bijouterie (usually uncountable, plural bijouteries)

1. Small articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 87:

     Is not Howel and James's shop filled with all that human art can invent, or human taste display—bijouterie touched with present sentiment, or radiant with future triumph?

   • 1850, The Anglo-hindoostanee handbook:

     The finer kinds of perfumery, prettily cut-glass bottles, and all sorts of bijouterie for the toilet or drawing-room table, good plaister casts, and in fact every thing ornamental, as far as the pecuniary means can afford, should be taken.

   • 1853, William Frederick Wakeman, Dublin: What's to be Seen, and how to See it:

     The first objects to attract attention are the large stands in the centre of the hall containing Mr. Simonton's brilliant display of bronze, painted china, and pretty bijouterie; the exquisite laces of Forrest and Allen; and the large collection of preparations for the toilet exhibited by Fred. Lewis.

   • 1861, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London:

     The women cultivate and plant the ground, and after feeding their husbands, expend the surplus products in the beads and baubles which compose their bijouterie.

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• bijou