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

Has he not gone with the chaplet on his brow, the ring upon his finger, the perfume of the incense yet clinging to his hair, the wine of Christ yet fresh upon his lips?

From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

She stooped down, and the chaplet fell from her hair, and only one bunch of berries remained.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Anadem, an′a-dem, n. a band or fillet bound round the head: a wreath or chaplet of flowers.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various