What's the difference between jewelry and wampum?

Jewelry


Definition:

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

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  • (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.

Wampum


Definition:

  • (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

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