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

At parties the head-dress of the guests was bound with a chaplet of flowers, and ointment was put upon the top of the wig, as if it had really been the hair of the head.”

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William

The golden circlet of enormous weight He wears with brow serene and smiling air, As though a myrtle chaplet graced his temples.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

The chaplet was made of carved wood and steel.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence