costume jewelry

noun

1. jewelry made of nonprecious metals, sometimes gold-plated or silver-plated, often set with imitation or semiprecious stones.

Word History and Origins

Origin of costume jewelry¹

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35

Example Sentences

On the kitchen table, two laptops are open and towers of fashion magazines, costume jewelry and beauty products are everywhere.

From The Daily Beast

It was merely an oddity, and nothing morea freak piece of costume jewelry made from fragments of an Arizona meteorite.

From Project Gutenberg