Lapis lazuli and silver had to be imported from beyond the country’s borders. By the mid-1940s, 85% of weddings in the U.S. featured a double-ring ceremony, up from 15% in the Nineteen Twenties. The word jewelry itself is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicised from the Old French “jouel”, and past that, to the Latin word “jocale”, that means plaything. In British English, Indian English, New Zealand English, Hiberno-English, Australian English, and South African English it is spelled jewellery, while the spelling is jewellery in American English. Both are used in Canadian English, although jewelry prevails by a two to 1 margin.
- Tiffany’s put the United States on the world map in terms of jewellery and gained fame creating dazzling commissions for people such as the spouse of Abraham Lincoln.
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