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Armlet   Listen
noun
Armlet  n.  
1.
A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea.
2.
An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm.
3.
Armor for the arm.





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"Armlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... stayed on to do honour to the ealdorman and his daughter. Elfrida looked all that a bride should, as I thought, and also as the queen said in my hearing, so that I think I cannot be wrong. I gave her Gerent's great gold armlet, having caused it to be wrought into such a circlet for her hair as any thane's wife might be well ...
— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler
... also prominent in religious rites, ranking among the modern tribes as did the turquoise among the people of the Southwest. A necklace of bear claws marks the man of distinction, and sometimes was worn as an armlet. In the buffalo country the women seldom ornamented their own robes, but embroidered those worn by the men. Sometimes a man painted his robe in accordance with a dream or pictured upon it a yearly record of his own deeds, or the prominent events of the tribe. Among the southern tribes a ...
— The Vanishing Race • Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon


Words linked to "Armlet" :   arm


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