Jewellery (UK) / Jewelry (US)

1. （Noun）
   
   Objects of personal adornment, as rings, necklaces, bracelets, or brooches, esp.
   
   When made of precious metals, gemstones, or pearls and distinguished by fine design and craft.
2. （Noun）
   
   Decorative objects worn on your clothes or body made of precious metals, such as gold and silver, precious stones, pearls.
3. （Wikipedia）
   
   Jewellery (UK) or jewelry (U.S.) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.
   
   Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes.
   
   The word jewellery itself is derived from the word jewel, which as anglicised from the Old French "jouel", and beyond that, to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything.
   
   From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.
   
   For many centuries metal such as gold often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used.
   
   Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.
   
   The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common.
   
   Jewellery may be made from a wide range of materials.
   
   Gemstones and similar materials such as amber and coral, precious metals, beads, and shells have been widely used, and enamel has often been important.
   
   In most cultures jewellery can be understood as a status symbol, for its material properties, it's patterns, or for meaningful symbols.