circlet
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)klət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]circlet (plural circlets)
- A small circle.
- A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.
- 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Thuvia”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 69:
- He wore in addition to his leathern trappings and jewelled ornaments a great circlet of gold about his brow in the exact centre of which was set an immense stone, the exact counterpart of that which I had seen upon the breast of the little old man at the atmosphere plant nearly twenty years before.
- A crown without arches or a covering.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:
- Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold.
- A round body; an orb.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a small circle
ornament worn on the head
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a crown without arches or a covering
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