costume jewelry
Noun
Meaning
costume jewelry (usually uncountable, plural costume jewelries)
US standard form of costume jewellery.
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Examples
And his wife is no less reluctant to exchange without thought, pieces engraved by hand in patterns as old as tribal tradition for costume jewelry fresh from a factory stamping machine.
CJCI Magazine, Summer 2010 – Vol. 1, Issue 2. A significant factor in the popularization of costume jewelry was the Hollywood movie.
The stones are so roughly cut than they look like very cheap costume jewelry from a store like "Claire's".
My mother kept her jewelry box, bought sometime in the mid-1950s, adding little trinkets to it over the years, until she passed it down to her three daughters to use as costume jewelry.
The most beloved costume jewelry designer in the world of fashion, Lane, a Rhode Island School of Design-trained designer, imagined his pieces with an artist's eye, a flair for color and an unapologetic love of flashy, faux stones.
In the 19th century, costume jewelry made of semi-precious material came into the market.