carcanet

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My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours: Say that I linger'd with you at your shop To see the making of her carcanet, And that to-morrow you will bring it home.

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

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

But to Him, His pauper’s mat of straw was an eternal throne of glory, and His heavy chains a sovereign’s carcanet.

From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

He then turned to Rose, who was about to attend her lady:—"Pretty maiden," he said, offering a chain of gold, "let this carcanet encircle thy neck, and buy thy good will."

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir

"By Jove!" said the Marquis, "this carcanet here Has been worn scores of times by my dowager-aunt!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various