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

Upon the top of the helmet is the wreath, which was originally a kind of chaplet surrounding the warrior’s head.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

She put him on a snow-white shroud, A chaplet on his head; And gathered only primroses To scatter o'er the dead.

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Anadem, an′a-dem, n. a band or fillet bound round the head: a wreath or chaplet of flowers.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various