chaplet

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She wore a pearl chaplet, a red bhakku over a white silk gown, and high-heeled shoes for the occasion.

From Time Magazine Archive

A five-year-old girl, Gudrun Diem, dressed in a light blue frock and wearing a flower chaplet in her hair, stepped forward, said, “Heil, mein Fuhrer!” and presented him with a small, delicate bouquet of flowers.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Near him is a young female, crowned with a chaplet of flowers, holding in her hand a scull, Death’s head, and hour-glass, and which the father of the family turns round to contemplate.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

Upon the top of the helmet is the wreath, which was originally a kind of chaplet surrounding the warrior’s head.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

“You would do better to try a chaplet of ortolans with a thrush for the Credo.”

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de