The cut of a gem describes how the gem has been shaped by a jeweler.
Each song is an intimate and masterfully shaped gem.
Gem-studded, golden earrings shaped like asps seem to have been reserved for nobility.
Almost every show will contain a few gems; Pear Shaped itself hosted early gigs from Daniel Kitson, Gary Delaney and Shazia Mirza.
Insecurity, and vulnerability, have always shaped the trade in gems and helped to fill the ranks of those who run it.
Orlov diamond, rose-cut gem from India, one of the Romanov crown jewels; it is shaped like half an egg, with facets covering its domed surface, and the underside is nearly flat.
It's fantastic: packed with art nouveau and deco design gems, from an Eiffel Tower silver teapot to a bookcase shaped like a skyscraper.
A gem-shaped cave painted frosted army green featured a coat inside that looked tailored for Ethel Kennedy out of a Cuban shower curtain.
WHEN the singer Mariah Carey and her husband, the actor and rapper Nick Cannon, appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last September, Mr. Cannon told of how he proposed in 2008: he presented Ms. Carey with a Ring Pop, the gem-shaped lollipop on a ring.
The edge is first shaped into a row of teeth, which are later hammered down onto the gem in order to hold it in place.
