单词 | jewel thief |
释义 | > as lemmasjewel thief b. As a modifier, designating an event, activity, or action relating to jewels, or a person who carries out such an action, as in jewel-cutter, jewel-cutting, jewel heist, jewel merchant, jewel robbery, jewel thief, etc. ΚΠ 1649 Tyrants Tryumphant (single sheet) Nine skittish Knights, the first a jewell Thiefe. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 382/1 I shall present you with such Tools and Instruments I find usually used by Stone or Jewel Cutters, called Lapidaryes and Jewel Workers. 1712 tr. Arabian Nights Entertainm. (ed. 2) IV. clii. 105 The Property [sc. a stately House] of a Rich Jewel Merchant. 1831 Morning Post 27 May Extensive Jewel Robbery.—Anne Hyde..was yesterday..charged with stealing rubies and emeralds to the value of 50l. the property of her employer. 1860 J. Ruskin Unto this Last iv, in Cornhill Mag. Dec. 554 Labour of the best quality may be various in aim. It may be either constructive.., as agriculture; nugatory, as jewel-cutting; or destructive.., as war. 1910 Washington Post 23 Aug. 6/4 The colors have been harmonized with the care of a jewel maker. 1948 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 22 Oct. 5/2 A fellow named Harry Sitamore got crowned with 40 years for a jewel heist, and actually pulled 14 years of the sentence. 2019 Ayr (Austral.) Advocate (Nexis) 20 Jan. Ben's Granny is an international jewel thief—and she needs his help to pull off her biggest heist yet, stealing the crown jewels. < as lemmas |
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