Bejewelled, superbly crafted, each with its own intriguing story, and full of surprises.

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He soon retrieved a sceptre, copper-colored and bejewelled, and gave it to Max.

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Madison Avenue is peppered with bejewelled elderly ladies wrapped in coloured fur.

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This creates an experience somewhere between Bejewelled and ice hockey.

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Even street food is being gentrified: at Quan An Ngon in Ho Chi Minh city, bejewelled ladies wash down their stuffed pancakes and hot-and-sour soup with sips of chardonnay.

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To get "the treatment" (which can be good or bad depending on the size of your expense account), head to Madison and 72nd Street, gateway to the bejewelled storefronts of the Upper East Side.

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Erskine May, the Commons' procedural bible, clasped to their bosom, bewigged, bejewelled, bepomped, they hang on to traditional forms like the most Luddite of trade unionists as a cover to protect their otherwise redundant jobs.

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Earlier this year, the Victoria and Albert Museum staged an exhibition entitled Maharajah: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts, and the opening tableau featured a full-sized model of an Asian elephant, magnificently bejewelled, ornamented and caparisoned, and surmounted by a gorgeous, glittering, golden howdah.

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The bejewelled and feather-dressed Samburu tribesmen must have laughed all the way home when Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio gathered them together a decade ago and told them of his plans to turn a couple of lumpy granite outcrops in the heart of Samburu country into a luxury game lodge overlooking the searing, acacia-speckled plains of northern Kenya.

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