circlet

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a narrow band of gold, silver, or jewels worn around someone’s head or arms 〔戴在头上或手臂上的〕环状饰物

Examples from the Corpus

circlet• The tentacles are arranged in a circlet about the mouth, and the coelenterates are typified by such radial symmetry.• A simple gold circlet held the veil in place, beneath which guileless blue eyes shone with a gentle womanly strength.• Her hair was down, making a black foam about her shoulders and setting off her silver circlet.• The girls just pick the flowers and twist them into the circlets they put on their heads.• He had snapped the circlet of runes from Thorfinn's throat.• The circlet is enriched by enamel plaques of Byzantine manufacture, alternating on the lower register with jewels en cabochon.• The crown consists of two circlet crowns welded together and into which has been set a cloth-covered headpiece.• Katherine and Sarah were in petrol blue velvet dresses and wore circlets of spring flowers on their heads.

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Corpus

BNC: 33589 COCA: 33478

circlet

Types of jewellery:anklet, band, bangle...