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carkanet

carkanet is the alternative form 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

Forms of carkanet

pluralcarkanets

Questions about carkanet

What is carkanet the alternative form of?
Carkanet is the alternative form of carcanet.

Words near carkanet in the dictionary

  1. carjackings
  2. carjacks
  3. carjacou
  4. cark
  5. cark it
  6. carkanet
  7. carkanets
  8. carkase
  9. carkases
  10. carked
  11. carked it

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