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locket

[lok-it] / ˈlɒk ɪt /




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Partridge Jewellers said the locket will be returned to Fabergé, Radio NZ reported.

From BBC Dec. 4, 2025

Between chatting nervously with my daughter and navigating the roads, it occurred to me that I’d forgotten my grandmother’s brass heart-shaped locket.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 2025

“In every photo, he just radiated with that smile,” his godmother Monique Vasquez said while wearing a locket with the younger Saldaña’s ashes.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2024

I was chatting this week with some colleagues about the locket, about what animates someone to buy a pricey piece of jewelry that’s being sold as a merchandise tie-in for a movie.

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2023

She leaned forward over the barrier, the better to observe her victim, and something gold swung forward too, and dangled over the void: the locket.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Redlands business Precious Creature initially only offered full-body taxidermy of pets until customers started suggesting other ideas, such as lockets containing patches of fur and cat-tail necklaces.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2025

Prince Albert gave her the gift of a bracelet with eight lockets attached to it - each containing a lock of hair from one of their eight children.

From BBC May 28, 2022

Gift bags were handed to families, and each group was presented with custom beaded bracelets and lockets dedicated to their loved ones.

From New York Times Dec. 7, 2021

Ladies wore cameos, mourning jewelry and large lockets containing photos and hair of loved ones.

From Washington Post Mar. 16, 2019

There were girls with squeaky voices or soft altos, plump girls and thin ones, babyish girls who wore heart lockets and girls who were old before their time and worked as secretaries in insurance firms.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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