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
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
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 Albert Payson Terhune
Upon the top of the helmet is the wreath, which was originally a kind of chaplet surrounding the warrior’s head.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
