Word of the Day:
circlet
What It Means
A small circle.
A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.
A crown without arches or a covering.
Circlet in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.
Source and license
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