Her delight in the beauty of the jewels, and her recoil at their inevitable association with materiality, money, and male economic practices, reveal the jewelry's power to signify contradictory discourses.
Quite apart from the rare and expensive jewels and lavishly set apartments, an army of retainers provided sumptuous foods and an ever-changing wardrobe of exquisite clothes.
All too often, though, these jewels are obscured by dense thickets of more routine description.
Courtiers played their parts in carefully selected clothes; jewelled hats, white satins, tawny velvets, orange taffetas.
In the tenth she was beginning to receive visitors of standing, and a golden crown and jewels were added to her coat.
In essence, the novitiate renounced all the finer things of life, symbolized by "silks and jewels" in favor of the life of the nun.
Swollen with pride, the ruler of the night was seated on his throne inlaid with jewels.
She had adamantly denied that the stolen jewels had been returned to her.
