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

Near him is a young female, crowned with a chaplet of flowers, holding in her hand a scull, Death’s head, and hour-glass, and which the father of the family turns round to contemplate.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

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

The golden circlet of enormous weight He wears with brow serene and smiling air, As though a myrtle chaplet graced his temples.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret