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bracelet|ˈbreɪslɪt|
Forms: 5– bracelet, 5 brasselat, 6 bracelette, bracellette, brasche-, brase-, 7 bras-, brasselet.
[a. OF. bracelet, dim. of OF. bracel: see bracel.]
1. a. An ornamental ring or band worn on the arm or wrist.
1438E. E. Wills (1882) 110 A Bracelet of Gold. 1488Invent. Jas. III in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 391 A brasselat of gold, with hede & pendes of gold. 1549Compl. Scot. 120 I tuke his croune fra his hede, and his brascheletis fra his armis. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 416 The Bracelet of the truest Princesse That euer swore her Faith. a1634Randolph Poems (1638) 13 Upon her arme a braslet hung. 1717Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. xliv. 19 She wore large diamond bracelets. 1839Thirlwall Greece II. 348 The collars and bracelets, with which the Persians..adorned their persons.
b. Palmistry. A wrinkle crossing the wrist at its junction with the hand.
1883Frith & Allen Chiromancy 125 The Rascette or ‘bracelets’..will be found in two or three distinctly marked lines underneath the hand. 1891Chambers's Encycl. VII. 727 These last (the bracelets), if well marked, strengthen the effect of the line of life, each bracelet indicating thirty years of life.
c. A narrow band of hair left on the legs of an animal after it has been clipped.
1904Windsor Mag. Jan. 290/1 The only sign of hair being on the ears and the ‘bracelets’ around the legs.
†2. Applied to ornaments of similar shape worn on other parts of the person. Obs.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia i. 3 In her eares were bracelets of pearle. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1862) 339 About Christiana's neck the Shepherds put a Bracelet. 1684Burnet tr. More's Utopia 106 Their Caps were covered with Bracelets set full of Pearls and other Gems.
3. A fetter for the wrist, a gyve, hand-cuff.
1816Scott Harold iv. viii, His bracelets of iron—his bed in our towers. 1883Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 12/1 Punishment used for refractory prisoners in Sing Sing:—Tight steel bracelets are fastened about the wrists.
4. A piece of armour covering the arm.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn gardebras, the bracelets of an armour. 1864Burton Scot Abr. III. ii. 135 Armed with..headpiece and bracelets.
5. Her. = barrulet.
6. Comb. Also braceletless a., without bracelets.
1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. Index 4 A Bracelet-alphabet [to write..by stringing of Bracelets.] 1801Southey Thalaba vi. xxvi, Their ancles bound with bracelet-bells. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 84 Barbara is locketless, braceletless, chainless. |