chaplet
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She wore a pearl chaplet, a red bhakku over a white silk gown, and high-heeled shoes for the occasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
A five-year-old girl, Gudrun Diem, dressed in a light blue frock and wearing a flower chaplet in her hair, stepped forward, said, “Heil, mein Fuhrer!” and presented him with a small, delicate bouquet of flowers.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
She stooped down, and the chaplet fell from her hair, and only one bunch of berries remained.
From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
After death he wore about his neck a little chaplet, which he called Kateri's beads.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth
Hari lifted from my locks their flowery chaplet, And gave me his crest of peacock feathers: With elaborate care he took the pearl from my nose And lifted the necklet from my neck!
From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura
