What's the difference between bijou and jewelry?

Bijou


Definition:

  • (n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Doubles from €90, junior suites from €130, Calle Marqués de Larios 2 and Calle Casas de Campos 17, +34 912 17 92 87, room-matehotels.com Dulces Dreams Facebook Twitter Pinterest Right next to the hammam, this bijou hotel, which opened last year, has just eight rooms (one with two double beds), five with their own bathroom.
  • (2) My standard double was so compact and bijou I couldn’t imagine lounging in it.
  • (3) Mecanoo joins a throng of architects who have recently used Birmingham's bijou heritage as an excuse to add a bit of bling.
  • (4) Three Shells Beach, Southend-on-Sea, Essex This is a great bijou beach within walking distance of the town centre.
  • (5) Skrillex and Four Tet review – unlikely duo channel early-rave spontaneity Read more In a bijou cafe near King’s Cross, Kieran Hebden sits under a meteorite-sized glitter ball, sipping at a ginger beer and looking uncommonly relaxed.
  • (6) Glass bijou bottles, evacuated container systems, and several types of plastic container showed no significant leakage rate with either blood or aqueous solution when they were tested at room temperature, but a large proportion of the plastic containers leaked after being subjected to -20 degrees.
  • (7) The Isle of Wight site was very compact and bijou compared to this.
  • (8) It’s the very definition of “bijou” at just 19 sq m (206 square feet), including the bathroom and entrance hall and despite there being a kitchen area, as the pictures show, any cooking you want to do will end with a ping.
  • (9) However, the presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, who had also been accused of cheekily getting a rise out of baking terms, seemed to be on best behaviour, heroically resisting any “tart” jokes during discussion of the bijou lemon flans.
  • (10) 2 Little Victoria Street (028-9020 0158, rhubarb-belfast.co.uk ) Molly's Yard Molly's Yard A converted Victorian stable block in the grounds of College Green House by Queens University, the bijou Molly's pursues a twin-track strategy, with its bistro and dinner menus in various formulations through the week.
  • (11) Some of the biggest cinema chains in the US are noticeably absent from the list including AMC, Cinemark, Landmark and Regal, with independents such as Michael Moore’s theater, The Bijou in Traverse City, making up the difference.

Jewelry


Definition:

  • (n.) The art or trade of a jeweler.
  • (n.) Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cause-specific mortality patterns among Rhode Island jewelry manufacturing workers, as identified on death certificates from 1968 to 1978, were examined using the proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) method.
  • (2) Lawyers acting for Smulls, 56, who was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of a jewelry store owner Stephen Honickman, have lodged a court motion protesting that the secrecy surrounding the source of the execution drugs is a violation of the prisoner's first amendment rights as well as his right to proper legal representation.
  • (3) Hillary Clinton accepted $58,000 in jewelry from the government of Brunei.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton gave the necklace from the queen of Brunei to the US government, in accordance with US law.
  • (4) The patient had a history of developing a rash and swelling whenever she used jewelry containing silver.
  • (5) The problems of diagnosis and expertise in occupational diseases in women with allergy to nickel present in metal jewelry and working in contact with metals in occupation are discussed.
  • (6) His wife, Kim Kardashian, who has made no public appearances since a robbery in Paris in October, where she was tied up and robbed of millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry, was not with him for his arrival at Trump Tower.
  • (7) The results provide support for the substitution of nickel in imitation jewelry with metals such as palladium or bronze.
  • (8) Rehabilitation by avoidance of nickel-containing costume jewelry, wrist-watches and clothing buckles, and by change of occupation, is possible and necessary.
  • (9) Youngevity says that it sells hundreds of products such as nutritional supplements, jewelry and coffee.
  • (10) Overnight, we had a break-in, so whatever was upstairs they came and took: TVs jewelry, everything,” she said.
  • (11) For 35 years, up until three weeks prior to pneumonectomy, the patient made asbestos soldering forms at a costume jewelry production facility.
  • (12) We present two cases that illustrate some of the real and potential hazards of these small jewelry pieces.
  • (13) Compared with the general signs of identity, like clothing, jewelry and accessories, scars etc., the marks of ears and observations of forensic odonto-stomatology provide good chances for identification.
  • (14) The resolution specifies some luxury items that North Korea's elite will not be allowed to import, such as yachts, racing cars, luxury automobiles and certain types of jewelry.
  • (15) In extreme cases it may make it embarrassing for the person concerned to wear metallic jewelry.
  • (16) Fertility and possession of jewelry represent femininity in the Makrani culture.
  • (17) Melania Trump, a Slovenian-born watch and jewelry designer and former model, whose father was a member of the communist party , stood in front of thousands as she proclaimed her love for her family and the nation that adopted her.
  • (18) There was a strong correlation of nickel sensitivity with a history of pierced ears, earlobe rash, and jewelry rash.
  • (19) The history of contact allergy to jewelry provided an early clue, and the microscopic features confirmed the clinical impression of allergic stomatitis.
  • (20) Both groups disliked excessive jewelry, prominent ruffles or ribbons, long fingernails, blue jeans, and sandals.

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