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Armlet

noun
1.
A band worn around the arm for decoration.  Synonym: arm band.






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"Armlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... her hand to receive it back, he clasped her wrist gently and began to coil the snake about her arm, above the elbow. She let him do it; emboldened, he kept her hand, when the jewel was in place, and pressed it gently. But she drew it away, not as though in rebuke, however, and examined the armlet to see that it ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor

... promising to carry a letter for us, but went without it; so that our delays continued. Mr Needham went himself to the Zamorin on the 4th November, and returned on the 25th, having got a present of a gold chain, a jewel, and a gold armlet, with orders also from the king to further our purposes; but the performance was as slow as before. The 20th December, a Malabar captain brought in a prize he had taken from the Portuguese, and would ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

... and thought it was an apparition. He clove the circling ball with his sword, and out of it leaped a small boy whose whole body glowed with a crimson radiance. But his face was delicately shaped and white as snow. About his right arm he wore a golden armlet and around his thighs was wound a length of crimson silk, whose glittering shine dazzled the eyes. When Li Dsing saw the child he took pity on him and did not slay him, while his wife began ...
— The Chinese Fairy Book • Various



Words linked to "Armlet" :   arm, band



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