Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
- n. An ornament that hangs from a bracelet or necklace.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To beat about or down, as corn by the wind.
- To waste by little and little; squander carelessly; fritter.
- In falconry, to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
- To flap or hang down loosely, as a hat-brim or an animal's ear.
- n. An ornamental ring worn upon the arms and ankles in India and Africa. Hence A bracelet without a clasp; a ring-bracelet, generally with small ornaments suspended from it.
- n. Nautical, a hoop of a spar.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
- n. An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn mostly by women, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. It differs from other bracelets in being rigid and not articulated, in contrast to bracelets made of links.
WordNet 3.0
- n. jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration
- n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
Etymologies
- Unknown (Wiktionary)
- Hindi baṅgrī, glass bracelet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“on Feb. 9, I want a tag bangle bracelet from Birks's Vancouver 2010 Collection on my wrist to empower me.”
“Each addition to the bangle is a la carte, so you can stay within your budget.”
“The tourist is now making fluttery movements from her heart to the sky and pointing to the bangle, which is obviously indicating a family heirloom that's she's not parting with.”
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“Case in point: The Toyota Camry, probably the most conservative car in the world, and one that attempts to appeal to as great a cross-section of buyers as possible, uses the rear end (aka bangle Bustle or in the parlance of our times, Bangle Butt) from the 2002 BMW E65 7 Series.”
“A Sikh teenager excluded from school for breaking a “no jewellery” rule by refusing to remove a wrist bangle which is central to her faith was a victim of unlawful discrimination, a judge ruled today.”
“Thereupon she donned a devotee's dress and betaking herself to the goldsmith, said to him, "To whom belongeth the bangle which is now with the king?" and said he,”
“I spotted a beautiful limited-edition bangle -- art deco purple pattern on a metal band.”
The Huffington Post: BritChick Paris: Why Shopping Is Actually More Pain Than Pleasure
“That includes bangle bracelets that make noise when you move your hands, eye-catching costume jewelry, strong perfumes, and, potentially, a very large engagement ring.”
The Huffington Post: Should Women Wear Engagement Rings To Interviews?
“Photographs by Kurt Wilberding Marco Bicego Jaipur bangle crafted in 18-karat yellow gold with citrine and mother-of-pearl, $890, and Jaipur bangle crafted in 18-karat yellow gold with citrine and blue topaz, $890 each, Saks, 877-551-7257”
“It's elegant, it's sleek, it's simple, it's so great next to a Cartier bangle or next to your own bangle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bangle’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Falconry
falconry, Falconry, falcon, austringer, bangle, bate, hood, tirret, bal-chatri trap, falconer, shikra trap, the falcon cannot... and 60 more...
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Bodily
wigwag, caprae, hylozoism, abiogenesis, whorl, entropy, anima, anthropoid, avatar, symbiont, symbiote, android and 34 more...
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VNCle
N stands for 'nasal', not 'n'
pimple, bungle, spindle, handle, amble, humble, simple, dimple, winkle, tinkle, single, dingle and 53 more...
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thing
apron, lard, clove, camphor, alfalfa, amber, caraway, juniper, kohl, lute, shale, glyph and 142 more...
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Animal
All things animal.
wookiee, onomatopoeia, arthropod, bangle, zoömimetic, vulpeculated, nag, pronk
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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Spiftacular's Words
spiffy, orchestra, skulduggery, antipathy, leap, sonata, opus, dug, deed, fabulous, nifty, glisten and 221 more...
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all the angles
and sides
rangle, fangle, fingle-fangle, bangle, dangle, gangle, jangle, mangle, tangle, wangle, wrangle, brangle and 82 more...
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Immrama
Magical Celtic Voyages
literally 'rowings about'The Voyage of Mae..., The Voyage of the..., The Voyage of Sne..., Voyage of St. Bre..., peregrinatio, The Voyage of the..., immrama, Vita Columbae, Vita Albie, Vita Fintani seu ..., peripteral, repechage and 85 more...
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deida
bangle, amorphous, grid, collie, garter belt, burka, mollify, valence, sensual, mandala, iconography, visceral and 14 more...
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magpie's delight
various trinkets and shiny objects
pearl, tinfoil, clean car, marble, string, quarter, monocle, button, pocket watch, cellophane, ribbon, bead and 22 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu "To flap or hang down loosely, as a hat-brim or an animal's ear."
- The Century Dictionary Aug 5, 2010