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Circlet

//ˈsɜː(ɹ)klət// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small circle.
  2. 2
    decorated metal band worn around the head wordnet
  3. 3
    A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.

    "He wore in addition to his leathern trappings and jewelled ornaments a great circlet of gold about his brow in the exact centre of which was set an immense stone, the exact counterpart of that which I had seen upon the breast of the little old man at the atmosphere plant nearly twenty years before."

  4. 4
    a small circle wordnet
  5. 5
    A crown without arches or a covering.

    "Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold."

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  1. 6
    A round body; an orb.

    "Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet."

Etymology

From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.

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