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necklace
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A necklace is an article of jewelry worn around the neck. Necklace may also refer to: Necklace (combinatorics) or fixed necklace , a concept in combinatorial mathematics " The Necklace ", a short story by Guy de Maupassant "The Necklace", an episode of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
necklace \neck"lace\ (?; 48), n. A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament. (Naut.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pearl necklace ▪ a pearl necklace COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE gold ▪ All the bridesmaids carried posies of spring flowers, and wore antique pearl and gold necklaces and bracelets. ▪ Ablutions completed, a quite ...
Usage examples of necklace.
The limited informational content of DNAthe four bases adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thyminedid not seem adequate to build the fantastically varied amino acid necklaces.
In fact, Alec saw, the necklace was very nearly the only thing covering her breasts.
The amah wore a midnight blue sari embroidered with silver threat and a necklace of rubies.
We saw you were an Animist by your necklace, and the rat dancing on your chest, of course.
He was like this every time chance brought a woman to his door, and not one had left him without bearing away any aureola about her head and a necklace of tears about her neck.
Amys and Bair were already there, looking no different than they had that morning, except that all their necklaces and bracelets sparkled a bit more than even gold really should have.
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 lot of bangles and necklaces and seemed weighed down by the sheer quantity of decoration she carried on her body.
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.
Hanging on hooks were bracelets and bangles and hundreds of beaded necklaces, mostly of bright red beads mixed with gold coins.
Both Julius and his father knew that when Bijou Frank took her leave Mrs Herz would revert to her former self, would remove her necklace and her earrings, and as like as not change into a dressing-gown.
Mistress Champernowne and just behind her but well to the side so she could see the whole room was Blanche Parry, one hand raised to clasp the necklace of crosses that Denoriel knew lay under her chemise.
Elizabeth, however, saw it clearly, and when Blanche unhooked one of the larger crosses from the necklace she wore, the child was able to point out where the imp was so that Blanche could beat at the bed curtain where it was trying to hide with the iron cross.
When he reached home, his people held a great celebration in his honor and brought him many gifts, the loot of the cities he had burned and the ships he had captured, one bringing a rich armor, another a necklace of gold and hyacinth, a third a cloak of byssus, and so on.