chaplet
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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"I will go when you will," she said, preparing to withdraw, with a whimsical attempt to don a martyr's chaplet.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
Wreath, rēth, n. a chaplet: a garland: anything long and circular: a defect in glass.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.