It was as if Lisbon wore a set of jewels that other cities didn't bother to.
Consequently, as the forms of jewels tended to become stereotyped, the matching set of jewels, or parure, became the dominant style in jewelry.
Right before Napoleon dumped her, he gave his wife Josephine a large emerald 'parure' -- a lavish set of jewels.
L'Ame du Voyage -- Louis Vuitton's most ambitious foray into high jewelry to date -- contains six sets of jewels that each orbit a one-of-a-kind necklace.
In fact, most people, who don't have the money to buy multiple sets of jewels for different times of day may well have felt they had no reason to consign what pieces they had to daytime- or nighttime-only.
According to a spokesperson for the auction house, the woman also bought a number of other items of royal clothing and a set of replica Crown Jewels, which she paid £5,500 for.
As if they hadn't suffered enough indignity in Palm Beach, Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark) has to go and send down a gang of thieves in FLASHFIRE (Mysterious Press/ Warner, $22.95) to rob the country club set of $12 million in jewels.
It has some landscape and some odd characters, whereas the earlier movie consisted mostly of sliced-cranium combat scenes and lacquered-glitz interiors and mock emotions like "anger" and "grief" that linked the fight episodes the way a thin string might hold a set of glittering flea-market jewels.
In June 2011, Christie's auctioned a set of pearl and diamond jewels (a tiara, brooch and bracelet) that were originally in Lady Rosebery's ownership.
Juicy J, Jordan Houston, a member of the Three 6 Mafia and one of the co-authors of "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," stepped up to the Oscars with not one, but two diamond encrusted watches, topped off by a set of diamond chompers, two rows of jewels that he wore over his teeth.
But Redmayne neglects the formal pattern of lines such as: "I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage".
