"rhinestone" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: Rhine + stone; a calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Rhine|stone}} Rhine + stone, {{calque|en|fr|caillou du Rhin||Rhine pebble|nocap=1}} calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} rhinestone (not comparable)
  1. Made of or encrusted with rhinestones. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Jewelry
    Sense id: en-rhinestone-en-adj-5NcdHE6N Disambiguation of Jewelry: 54 12 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 29 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 46 4

Noun

Forms: rhinestones [plural]
Etymology: Rhine + stone; a calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Rhine|stone}} Rhine + stone, {{calque|en|fr|caillou du Rhin||Rhine pebble|nocap=1}} calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} rhinestone (plural rhinestones)
  1. An artificial diamond, strass. Synonyms: strass Derived forms: rhinestone cowboy Translations (an artificial diamond): изкуствен диамант (izkustven diamant) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 萊茵石 (Chinese Mandarin), 莱茵石 (Chinese Mandarin), rínarsteinur [masculine] (Faroese), strass [masculine] (French), Strass [masculine] (German), aligoq (Greenlandic), straso (Ido), réinchloch [feminine] (Irish), ラインストーン (rainsutōn) (Japanese), 라인석 (rainseok) (Korean), strass (Portuguese), страз (straz) [masculine] (Russian), strass [common-gender] (Swedish), rheinston [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-rhinestone-en-noun-kqJJV9BB Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 46 4

Verb

Forms: rhinestones [present, singular, third-person], rhinestoning [participle, present], rhinestoned [participle, past], rhinestoned [past]
Etymology: Rhine + stone; a calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Rhine|stone}} Rhine + stone, {{calque|en|fr|caillou du Rhin||Rhine pebble|nocap=1}} calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} rhinestone (third-person singular simple present rhinestones, present participle rhinestoning, simple past and past participle rhinestoned)
  1. (transitive) To decorate with rhinestones. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-rhinestone-en-verb-4bH9x1gt

Inflected forms

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