Other forms: necklaces
A necklace is the chain of metal or beads you wear around your neck. A pearl necklace, wear a necklace, a gold necklace.
Length is what decides how it sits — a choker at the throat, a princess at the collarbone, an opera length far lower — and the names are standard in the trade. Note that the word is neck plus lace, where lace means a cord, the same sense as in shoelace.
1nounnecklaceA chain or string of beads worn around the neck.
“She wore a pearl necklace that had belonged to her grandmother.”
necklace is a piece of jewellery.
Neck plus lace, where lace means a cord, from Latin laqueus, a noose. Shoelace uses the same lace.
From neck + lace.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA