carcanet

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 Quotations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French carcan, cognate with Provençal carcan, mediæval Latin carcannum, Italian carcome, ultimately from Germanic.

[edit] Noun

carcanet (plural carcanets)

1. A richly decorative collar.

[edit] Quotations

• William Shakespeare, Sonnet LII:

  Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
  

  Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
  

  Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
  

  Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
  

• JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  There flying Elwing came to him,

  and flame was in the darkness lit;

  more bright than light of diamond

  the fire upon her carcanet.