chainlet

English

Etymology

chain +‎ -let

Noun

chainlet (plural chainlets)

1. A small chain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

   • 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

     Her pure white dress, her fair arms and neck, the trembling chainlet of gold circling her throat, and quivering on her breast, glistened strangely amid the obscurity of the sickroom.

Translations

a small chain

• Russian: цепо́чка (ru) f (cepóčka)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chainlet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cathelin, chat line, chatline, ethnical