bracelets

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bracelets

  1. plural of bracelet

Noun

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bracelets pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial) handcuffs
    • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
      Of thirty bare yeares haue I
      twice twenty bin enraged,
      & of forty bin three tymes fifteene
      in durance soundlie caged,
      On yͤ lordlie loftes of Bedlam
      with stubble softe & dainty,
      braue braceletts Strong, sweet whips ding dong
      with wholesome hunger plenty
    • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Three Tools of Death:
      "Sergeant," said Inspector Gilder, eyeing the black hands with wrath, "aren't you putting the bracelets on this fellow; he looks pretty dangerous."

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bracelets

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bracelet

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bracelets m

  1. plural of bracelet