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circlet

UK/ˈsɜːklət/US/ˈsɜɹklət/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: circlets

A circlet is a plain ornamental band worn on the head. A silver circlet.

It is a crown without the point of being one, and reads as elegant rather than grand. A circlet is what a character in a story wears when a crown would say too much.

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Definitions of circlet

  1. 1nouncircletA plain ornamental band worn on the head.C1

    “She wore a thin gold circlet and nothing else.”

circlet is a band.

Where it comes from

Middle French cerclet, a little circle, from cercle.

  1. Middle French

    cerclet

  2. English, today

    circlet

From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Jewellery & Watches

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circlet in the wild

  • The torse is also often used as a decoration on a heraldic animal, either across the brow, as a form of circlet, or around the neck.

    Torse

  • A circlet is a piece of headwear that is similar to a diadem or a corolla.

    Circlet

  • Diadem and circlet are often used interchangeably, and 'open crowns' with no arches (as opposed to 'closed crowns') have also been referred to as circlets.

    Circlet

  • An armiger who is entitled to the heraldic elements may wear a crest badge that incorporates a circlet.

    Scottish crest badge

  • A corolla is an ancient headdress in the form of a small circlet or crown.

    Corolla (headgear)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.