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anklets

anklets is the plural of anklet.

Meaning of anklet

Noun

anklet (plural anklets)

  1. A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
    • The men wear their frizzly hair gathered into a flat circular knot over the left temple, which has a very knowing look, and in their ears cylinders of wood as thick as one's finger, and coloured red at the ends. Armlets and anklets of woven grass or of silver, with necklaces of beads or of small...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 79
  2. An ankle sock.
    • Stretch socks are made in infant sizes, girls' and ladies' anklets […]1959, Chain Store Age for Supermarket-Grocery Executives, page 237

Questions about anklets

What is anklets the plural of?
Anklets is the plural of anklet.

Words near anklets in the dictionary

  1. anklelocks
  2. ankles
  3. anklesful
  4. anklet
  5. ankleted
  6. anklets
  7. anklewarmer
  8. anklewarmers
  9. anklewear
  10. ankling
  11. anklong

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