lavalliere
Example Sentences
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Underneath, he tended to wear a turtleneck adorned with some sort of necklace—African beads, a lavalliere on a string—and he often sported half a dozen rings.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
Into a parcel I placed the rest of the housekeeping money, my wedding and engagement rings and the lavalliere which Dicky had given me as a wedding present.
From Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison
The rest was simple—dropping the lavalliere links back of Number Five, placing the lavalliere in the yard of his house, and so on.
From The Winning Clue by James Hay
So the girl promptly clasped her lavalliere around her neck and openly displayed it, as a proud defiance, if not a direct challenge, to that detestable sneer.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces out West by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
It was in the form of a diamond and ruby lavalliere that he had found the day before in a pawn shop and that Mrs. Fowler had identified as Sylvia's.
From The Girl at Central by Geraldine Bonner
