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

Wreath, rēth, n. a chaplet: a garland: anything long and circular: a defect in glass.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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

You are given up entirely to your chaplet, to your hypocrisy, and your infernal machinations.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar