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Meaning of gemmy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Full of, or covered in, gems.
  2. Spruce; smart; jemmy.
    UK, dated, informal
  3. Bright and glittering, as though studded with gems.

Examples

“The gemmy bridle glittered free, / Like to some branch of stars we see / Hung in the golden galaxy.”
“His mildly vivid dewy beam Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam With elf-light tiniest figures lit Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip In circle.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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