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

The use of a chaplet of beads, as a memento of the number of prayers recited, is of Eastern origin, and dates from the time of the Egyptian Anchorites.

From Famous European Artists by Bolton, Sarah K.

She beheld a thin, undersized man, nearly sixty years old, hawk-nosed, inscrutable of eye, on whose thin gray locks, to mask his fast-growing baldness, rested a chaplet of laurel leaves.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson

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