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carcanets

carcanets is the plural of carcanet.

Meaning of carcanet

Noun

carcanet (plural carcanets)

  1. (archaic) A richly decorative collar.
    • Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, / Or captain jewels in the carcanet.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet LII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Questions about carcanets

What is carcanets the plural of?
Carcanets is the plural of carcanet.

Words near carcanets in the dictionary

  1. carcakes
  2. Carcalgong
  3. Carcamo
  4. Carcamos
  5. carcanet
  6. carcanets
  7. Carcar
  8. carcase
  9. carcases
  10. carcass
  11. carcass weight

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