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Anklet

noun

A shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the ankle.

A sock that reaches just above the ankle. Synonyms: anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks.

An ornament worn around the ankle. Synonym: ankle bracelet.

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"Anklet" Quotes from Famous Books

... vacant mood By a wild-thyme banklet, Love passed glimmering thro' the wood, Lost her golden anklet. ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... Greek, from ancient Jerusalem, from the fire-breathing shrines of Baal at long-dead Carthage, perhaps, this topaz might have come. This sapphire might have graced the anklet of some beauty of old Nile, ages before King Solomon wielded the scepter, ages even before the great ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... brass anklet, armlet, or similar metal object is put into boiling water in one of the iron pans so common throughout the Agsan Valley. The suspected party, or parties, is then called upon to insert a hand into the water and to remove the object that has been placed at the bottom of the ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... then sat down to collect himself a little, and felt upon the ground by his side an anklet that had evidently fallen off the old witch's foot. This he put into his pocket, and as the storm had by this time passed over he made his way back to the palace. When he had finished his story, he took the anklet out of his pocket and handed it to the king, who, like everyone else, ...

— The Olive Fairy Book • Various