gem
/d͡ʒɛm/ noun C1- A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
- Any precious or highly valued thing or person. · She's an absolute gem.
- Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram. · a gem of wit
- Internet content of good quality.
- A geometrid moth of the species Orthonama obstipata.
- A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
- A strong, dominating pitching performance.
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It was shaped like a chair and sparkled with gems, as did everything else.
She was a lithe, dark-eyed woman in a wonderful gown of shimmering gray stuff like woven moonbeams, with gems on her neck and in her dark hair.
jewels, diamonds, gems; that I alone...
“This 25th day of April, 1498, be...ing invited to dine by his Holiness Alexander VI., and fearing that not...content with making me pay for my hat, he may desire to become my heir, and re...serves for me the fate of Cardinals Caprara and Bentivoglio, who were poisoned,...I declare to my nephew, Guido Spada, my sole heir, that I have bu...ried in a place he knows and has visited with me, that is, in...the caves of the small Island of Monte Cristo, all I poss...essed of ingots, gold, money, jewels, diamonds, gems; that I alone...know of the existence of this treasure, which may amount to nearly two mil...lions of Roman crowns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro...ck from the small creek to the east in a right line.
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