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

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 king wore a black velvet jerkin, and a cap of crimson velvet, ornamented with a chaplet of pearls.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

The coffin was covered with a black velvet pall, and a chaplet of white flowers lay upon it, indicating that the deceased was unmarried.

From The Portland Sketch Book 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