esclavagen.
Obsolete.
A necklace composed of several rows of gold chains, beads, or jewels, so called from its resemblance to the fetters of a slave.
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esclavage1758
negligée1824
rivière1833
sautoir1936
1758 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 478 All the bougets, esclavages, earrings and knots.
1766 G. Colman & D. Garrick Clandestine Marriage i. ii. 11 How d'ye like the stile of this esclavage?
1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 323.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1758- to tell or count one's beads
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