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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2632462, member: 5833"]Yes. Jewelllery with stones chosen because they were interesting, not because they were precious or semi-precious, doesn't really seem to have caught on in the US during that period. Mourning jewellery itself doesn't seem as prevalent here.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You would think the word itself would be newfangled, but it is an old one. I was very surprised to encounter it near the end of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur, where he says something about the people being so newfangled that after the death of Arthur they chose Constantine as their king.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2632462, member: 5833"]Yes. Jewelllery with stones chosen because they were interesting, not because they were precious or semi-precious, doesn't really seem to have caught on in the US during that period. Mourning jewellery itself doesn't seem as prevalent here. You would think the word itself would be newfangled, but it is an old one. I was very surprised to encounter it near the end of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur, where he says something about the people being so newfangled that after the death of Arthur they chose Constantine as their king.[/QUOTE]
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