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  • noun Plural form of necklet.

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Examples

  • There are lengths of silks and brocades, spools and spools of silver and gold thread, and boxes of jeweled pomanders and necklets, bracelets and rings.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • There are lengths of silks and brocades, spools and spools of silver and gold thread, and boxes of jeweled pomanders and necklets, bracelets and rings.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • There are lengths of silks and brocades, spools and spools of silver and gold thread, and boxes of jeweled pomanders and necklets, bracelets and rings.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • On a shady dealer in metals: “…..a loud British wideboy, all twisty electrum necklets and narrow, pointed shoes …..”

    The Silver Pigs, by Lindsey Davis. Book review Carla 2009

  • On a shady dealer in metals: “…..a loud British wideboy, all twisty electrum necklets and narrow, pointed shoes …..”

    Archive 2009-11-01 Carla 2009

  • The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, caught the unhappy wretches by the throat.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • There were men from the north with heavy brass collars and anklets; men with quills in their ears, and earrings and nose-rings; shaven heads, and heads with wonderfully twisted hair; bodies naked or all but naked, and bodies adorned with skins and necklets.

    Prester John 2005

  • Laodike was always festooned with gold, her wrists and throat sporting an assortment of bracelets, bangles, and necklets, her corn-colored hair intertwined with gold wire, her gowns weighed down with brooches.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

  • The wampum necklets, he said, were to allow the conspirators to identify each other should they meet at some point-but he had never seen anybody else wearing one.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • I recognized them by the red ochre in their hair and their copper-wire necklets.

    Prester John 2005

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