necklace
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈnɛkləs/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɛklɪs/, /ˈnɛkləs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈnɛkləs/, /ˈnɛklæɪs/
- Rhymes: -ɛkləs, (UK) -ɛklɪs
Noun
[edit]necklace (plural necklaces)
- An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.
- a necklace of coral islands
- (South Africa) A device used in necklacing (an informal execution); a rubber tyre that is filled with petrol. It is placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
Necklacing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 4 August, 2004, “Necklacing: 7 held”, in Headline Pretoria News:
- Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.
- 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution
- 2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]jewelry
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figurative: anything resembling a necklace in shape
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method of execution
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Verb
[edit]necklace (third-person singular simple present necklaces, present participle necklacing, simple past and past participle necklaced)
- (South Africa) To informally execute by necklacing; by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
- May 29 2003, The Star:
- Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.
- 2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin
- Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed
- 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.
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