carcanet
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You have £2000 worth of jewels over what is in the paper; but the carcanet shall be forthcoming.
From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen
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 George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
Paragon of jewels enchased in a carcanet of dazzling brilliants!
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
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 Richard Hovey
A thousand reflections danced and flickered about the little room as it revolved in the sunlight, glowing and glittering like the sparkles from a carcanet of jewels.
From The Pagans by Arlo Bates
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