ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

[jewelry materials derived from living organisms] pearl, cultured pearl, fresh-water
pearl; mother of pearl; coral.
[person who sells jewels] jeweler.
[person who studies gemstones] gemologist; minerologist.
[person who cuts gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian.
[study of gemstones] gemology, gemmology; minerology.
V. shine like a diamond.
Adj. bejeweled; diamond &c n. (gemstones).
gemological.
848. Blemish -- N. blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism † ; flaw, defect &c
(imperfection) 651; injury &c (deterioration) 659; spots on the sun † ; eyesore.
stain, blot; spot, spottiness; speck, speckle, blur.
tarnish, smudge; dirt &c 653.
[blemish on a person's skin: list] freckle, mole, macula [Anat.], patch, blotch,
birthmark; blobber lip † , blubber lip; blain † , maculation; scar, wem † ; pustule; whelk;
excrescence, pimple &c (protuberance) 250.
V. disfigure &c (injure) 659; speckle.
Adj. pitted, freckled, discolored; imperfect &c 651; blobber-lipped, bloodshot; injured
&c (deteriorated) 659.
849. Simplicity -- N. simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress, chastity.
V. be simple &c adj.. render simple &c adj.; simplify, uncomplicate.
Adj. simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.
unaffected; ingenuous, sincere (artless) 703; free from affectation, free from
ornament; simplex munditiis [Lat.] [Horace]; sans facon [Fr.], en deshabille [Fr.].
chaste, inornate † , severe.
unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked † , ungarnished, unarranged † , untrimmed,
unvarnished.
bald, flat, dull.
Phr. veritatis simplex oratio est [Lat.].
850. [Good taste.] Taste -- N. taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy,
refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety &c (discrimination) 465; to
prepon [Gr.]; polish, elegance, grace.
judgment, discernment &c 465.
dilettantism, dilettanteism; virtu; fine art; culture, cultivation.
[Science of taste] aesthetics.
man of taste &c; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante,
Aristarchus † , Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.], stagirite † , euphemist.
caviare to the general [Hamlet].
V. appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate &c 465
Adj. in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic;
cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic, artistic; elegant &c 578; euphemistic.
to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut [Fr.]; tire a quatre
epingles [Fr.].