jewelry

From Middle English juelrye, from Old French juelerye, equivalent to jewel +‎ -ry.

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jewelry (usually uncountable, plural jewelries)

1. US standard spelling of jewellery.
   • 2010 December 2, Roberta Smith, “Visual Culture Out of Africa”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design.

jewelry (third-person singular simple present jewelries, present participle jewelrying, simple past and past participle jewelried) (rare)

1. (intransitive) To make jewelry.
   • 1897 August 10, Ephraim Cutter, “Fatty Ills and Their Masquerades”, in The Medical Age, volume 15, number 15:

     He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.

   • 1991, Hugh M. Addington, History of the Family of Addington in the United States and England, page 37:

     The members of this family have an honest and honorable record in their dealings and relations in every way, preferring the peaceful calling of farming, poultrying, and jewelrying; with a home of many comforts and enjoyments.

2. (intransitive) To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
   • 1988, Helen Khal, The Woman Artist in Lebanon:

     The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces.

• Also used in Canada, but less common there than jewellery.