carcanet
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editcarcanet (plural carcanets)
- (archaic) A richly decorative collar.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet LII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, / Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 136:
- he cared nothing for curiously woven shrouds, and feathered mantles, and carcanets of pearl beads, and jars of quaint pottery [...].
- 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:
- There flying Elwing came to him, / and flame was in the darkness lit; / more bright than light of diamond / the fire upon her carcanet.