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art highly prized for its beauty or perfection a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry |
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