armlet

Noun

armlet (plural armlets)

1. A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes.
   • Her little chambers drip with flower-like red,
     Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head,
     Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet
     She tramples all that winepress of the dead.1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   armring

2. A small arm.
   • an armlet of the sea