unjewel
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[edit]unjewel (third-person singular simple present unjewels, present participle unjeweling or unjewelling, simple past and past participle unjeweled or unjewelled)
- (transitive) To remove the jewels from.
- 1841, Blackwood's Lady's Magazine, volume X, page 306:
- "If I unplume and unjewel my cap," said the youth, tearing off, as he spoke, the feather and brooch that were its ornaments, and dashing them to the earth, […]