carcanet

Example Sentences

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With gifts they shall be sent, Gifts to the bride to spare their banishment, Fine robings and a carcanet of gold.

From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes

Paragon of jewels enchased in a carcanet of dazzling brilliants!

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

Her ruff was of point lace, and round her throat she wore a carcanet of pearls, while other precious stones glistened in her dusky tresses.

From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison

My sweet sister shall take her choice of a carcanet among those old-fashioned trinkets.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Each one wore an iron carcanet, and the crowd was never weary of coming to gaze at them.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave