carcanet

• Beyond the harbour's mouth the riding-lights of the Mevagissey fishing fleet ran like a carcanet of faint jewels, marking the unseen horizon of the Channel. —  The Mayor of Troy
• And let Those hard-faced worldlings prematurely old Gnaw their thin lips with vain desire to get Portia's fair fame or Lesbia's carcanet, Or crown of Caesar or Catullus, Apicius' lampreys or Crassus' gold! —  Songs from Vagabondia
• On being asked on Saturday morning where the jewels were, Col. Turner said he had given them to White at six o'clock that morning Col. Turner afterwards restored the carcanet, the only jewel which he had not restored before On the same day in the evening he was condemned to be hung On the occasion of his execution, two days afterwards, he made a dying speech of some length. —  State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2)
• I had been saving up the money for a carcanet for thy fair neck So my neck be fair in thine eyes, my lord, it may go bare and be well clad. —  St. George and St. Michael
• Each one wore an iron carcanet, and the crowd was never weary of coming to gaze at them. —  Salammbo

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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