Ankle adornment

Usage examples of bangle.

This large hut, eighteen feet wide by twenty-three feet long, yielded a fairly large quantity of coarse black and brown pottery, one badly corroded bronze bangle, and two small fragments of celadon china.

A little further on it says: Therapies, bathing in moonlight, running water, wearing of bangles, bracelets and anklets.

I saw a girl amongst them who had eyes at the side of her face, bangles of blue copper round her neck, and who was more lovely than forest flowers.

It took Mum a long time to get ready and while she powdered her face and arranged the elaborate ornamented folds of her head-gear and dug out her necklaces and bangles, her wrappers and white shoes, and plaited her hair hurriedly in the mirror, Dad was already asleep on his three-legged chair.

She wore a new lace blouse, an expensive wrapper, coral beads round her neck, and copper bangles round her wrists.

She wore a lot of bangles and necklaces and seemed weighed down by the sheer quantity of decoration she carried on her body.

They say you are an abiku child, that you care nothingfor your parents, that you are cold, and that you have eyes only for that special spirit who is a beautiful young girl with golden bangles and copper anklets.

We saw her in fantastic dresses of silk and lace, edged with turquoise filigree, white gowns, and yellow hats, waving a fan of blue feathers, with expensive bangles of silver and gold weighing her arms, and necklaces of pearl and jade round her neck.

Their imitation gold bangles and necklaces, brooches and rings of cheap rubies, their indispensable high-heeled shoes, glittered under the lights.

Out of the stillness of a strange love, I saw her in a tattered wig, a pair of blue glasses on her face, bangles on her arms.

And her copper bangles had turned greenish from rust and all the water that dripped in from our roof.

She wore rings and bangles, and even a ruby stud on the side of her nose.

Hanging on hooks were bracelets and bangles and hundreds of beaded necklaces, mostly of bright red beads mixed with gold coins.

Hugh could see her, see her with her bangles and her beads standing at the pithead, her little parcel of clothes tucked under her arm.

Alex was more wary of her, but in the end he sat on her knee and played with all the gold bangles along her thin arms.