carcanet

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My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours: Say that I linger'd with you at your shop To see the making of her carcanet, And that to-morrow you will bring it home.

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

I give thee, love, a carcanet With all the rainbow splendor set, Of diamonds that drink the sun.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

He is dressed in white flowing robes with a heavy carcanet of emeralds round his neck.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

And let Those hard-faced worldlings prematurely old Gnaw their thin lips with vain desire to get Portia's fair fame or Lesbia's carcanet, Or crown of Caesar or Catullus, Apicius' lampreys or Crassus' gold!

From Songs from Vagabondia by Hovey, Richard

She said all that was in the paper, except one carcanet of diamonds and jewels, valued at £200 that is fallen behind the chest or aside.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Stephen, Harry Lushington, Sir