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circlet [ˈsɜːklɪt] n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Jewellery) a small circle or ring, esp a circular ornament worn on the head [from Old French cerclet a little circle] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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. Napoleon, standing on the knoll, looked through a field glass, and in its small circlet saw smoke and men, sometimes his own and sometimes Russians, but when he looked again with the naked eye, he could not tell where what he had seen was. Joe succeeded in cutting the caoutchouc jointings above the car, but when he came to the pipes he found it more difficult to disengage them, because they were held by their upper extremity and fastened by wires to the very circlet of the valve. |
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