Crossword clues for bangle
bangle
- Rigid bracelet
- Bracelet attachment
- Bit of bling for the wrist
- Jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration
- Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing
- Type of bracelet or anklet
- Bracelet, e.g.
- Ornamental bracelet
- Claspless bracelet
- Arm ornament
- Bracelet originally buried by early settler
- Piece of jewelry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bangle \Ban"gle\, n. [Hind. bangr[=i] bracelet, bangle.] An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn mostly by women, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. It differs from other bracelets in being rigid and not articulated, in contrast to bracelets made of links.
Bangle ear, a loose hanging ear of a horse, like that of a spaniel.
Bangle \Ban"gle\ (b[a^][ng]"g'l), v. t. [From 1st Bang.] To waste by little and little; to fritter away. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ring-shaped bracelet," 1787, from Hindi bangri "colored glass bracelet or anklet."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (lb en transitive obsolete) to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind. 2 (context obsolete or dialectal English) to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away). 3 (lb en intransitive) (context lang=en falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey. 4 (lb en intransitive) to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bangles are rigid bracelets, usually from metal, wood, or plastic. They are traditional ornaments worn mostly by South Asian women in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is a common tradition to see a new bride wearing glass bangles at her wedding and the honeymoon will end when the last bangle breaks. Bangles also have a very traditional value in Hinduism and it is considered inauspicious to be bare armed for a married woman. Toddler to older woman could wear bangles based on the type of bangles. Bangles made of gold or silver are preferred for toddlers.
Bangles are also known as , , , , , , and .
Some men wear a single bangle on the arm or wrist called kada or kara. In Sikhism, the father of a Sikh bride will give the groom a gold ring, a kara (steel or iron bangle), and a mohra. Chooda is a kind of bangle that is worn by Punjabi women on her wedding day. It is a set of white and red bangles with stone work. According to tradition, a woman is not supposed to buy the bangles she will wear.
Moradabad is India's largest producer of bangles.
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.