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- noun Plural form of
chainlet .
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Examples
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Slender chainlets stretched from his fingers up to his shoulders and fell behind, where men by pulling them made the two hands rise to a level with the elbows, and come close together against the belly; they were moved several times in succession with little abrupt jerks.
Salammbo 2003
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Meantime the carriages, going at a good pace, rolled over bridges, skirted little lakes and flowery meads, and fine vineyards running with water and deserted; for it was Sunday, and all the peasants whom they met wore their gala costumes, the women with long braids of hair hanging down their backs and silver chainlets.
Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868
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It lights up the innumerable heads of the multitude which fills the nave and surges between the columns towards the side-aisles, where one can distinguish in the wooden compartments altars, beds, chainlets of little blue stones, and constellations painted on the walls.
Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850
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The dress of the Swedish nobleman was correct to the last degree, -- black coat, white cravat, and white waistcoat, on which glowed the ribbon of an order hanging from his neck; the rest of his decorations were fastened to his coat by chainlets.
The Deputy of Arcis Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Which explains the rise of the latest hotel hybrids: small-scale chainlets melding boutique DNA with expansionist ambition.
NYT > Travel 2010
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Which explains the rise of the latest hotel hybrids: small-scale chainlets melding boutique DNA with expansionist ambition.
NYT > Travel 2010
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Which explains the rise of the latest hotel hybrids: small-scale chainlets melding boutique DNA with expansionist ambition.
NYT > Travel 2010
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Which explains the rise of the latest hotel hybrids: small-scale chainlets melding boutique DNA with expansionist ambition.
NYT > Travel 2010
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Which explains the rise of the latest hotel hybrids: small-scale chainlets melding boutique DNA with expansionist ambition.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Which explains the rise of the latest hotel hybrids: small-scale chainlets melding boutique DNA with expansionist ambition.
NYT > Travel 2010
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