carcanet

Example Sentences

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

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

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

The carcanet of gold That gripped her brow was molten in a dire And wondrous river of devouring fire.

From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes

I give thee, love, a carcanet With all the rainbow splendor set, Of diamonds that drink the sun.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

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)