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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bracelet
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
gold
▪ The gold bracelets he wore were too small, and bit into his forearms.
▪ He sipped his gin and tonic, and my eyes flitted to his gold watch and his gold bracelet.
▪ She put her hand to her cheek and revealed a slender wrist circled by a gold bracelet.
▪ All the bridesmaids carried posies of spring flowers, and wore antique pearl and gold necklaces and bracelets.
▪ Detectives are hoping that he may be trapped through a gold bracelet found at the scene of his latest crime.
silver
▪ She had silver bracelets on her plump arms.
▪ Tom turned around and saw Freddie staring at the silver identification bracelet on his left wrist.
▪ She fingered glittering necklaces, gold and silver chains, bracelets, beads, brooches, earrings.
▪ There was my silver bracelet and my scarab ring.
▪ Heavy silver bracelets were on her wrists and two similar ones on her ankles.
▪ Very gently I pulled out the silver bracelet.
■ VERB
wear
▪ She wore bracelets woven of Peruviian string.
▪ Greenlaw will wear a bracelet that allows him to be electronically tracked.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gold bracelet, sports shirt, and a small crucifix dangled from a 24-carat chain round his throat.
▪ Lying on silk in the round leather box was a bracelet.
▪ She hates the girl with the dangle bracelet too.
▪ The judge ordered him into home detention for a year, with an ankle bracelet that monitors his movements.
▪ There are bracelets minutely fashioned as serpents.
▪ With it, she had chosen a pair of black sneakers and a huge black bracelet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bracelet

Bracelet \Brace"let\, n. [F. bracelet, dim. of OF. bracel armlet, prop. little arm, dim. of bras arm, fr. L. bracchium. See Brace,n.]

  1. An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

  2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm.
    --Johnson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bracelet

mid-15c., from Old French bracelet (14c.), diminutive of bracel, from Latin bracchiale "armlet," from bracchium "an arm, a forearm" (see brace (n.)).

Wiktionary
bracelet

n. 1 A band or chain worn around the wrist as jewelry/jewellery or an ornament. 2 The strap of a wristwatch, used to secure it around the wrist. 3 (context historical English) A piece of defensive armour for the arm.

WordNet
bracelet
  1. n. a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist [syn: watchband, watchstrap, wristband, watch bracelet]

  2. jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration [syn: bangle]

Wikipedia
Bracelet

A bracelet is an article of jewellery that is worn around the wrist. It may have a supportive function, such as holding a wristwatch or other items of jewellery such as religious symbols or charms. Medical and identity information is marked on some bracelets, such as allergy bracelets, hospital patient-identification tags, and bracelet tags for newborn babies. If a bracelet is a single, inflexible loop, it is often called a bangle. When it is worn around the ankle it is called an ankle bracelet or anklet. A boot bracelet is used to decorate boots. Colloquially, handcuffs are sometimes called bracelets. Bracelets can be manufactured from metal, leather, cloth, plastic or other materials and sometimes contain jewels, rocks, wood, shells, crystals, metal or plastic hoops, pearls and many more materials.

Bracelet (disambiguation)

A bracelet is an article of jewellery worn around the wrist

Bracelet may also refer to:

  • Handcuffs, for which 'bracelets' is slang
  • Bracelet (combinatorics), a cyclical sequence of symbols used in combinatorial mathematics
  • World Series of Poker bracelet, an award won at the World Series of Poker
  • Bracelets (film), a 1931 British film

Usage examples of "bracelet".

There he himself stood in a dark blue loincloth with a white pinstripe, his chest abloom with curly red hair and tasteful pseudo-tattoos, his fingers heavy with rings, his ankles clanking with bracelets.

They sat together over a wheel, which was unfortunate, but at least Jan was not Kate, and had no need of acupressure bracelets and a large dose of Sturgeron.

She was a dark-skinned Ammonite, her eyelids blackened with kohl, her arms ajingle with crude golden bracelets in the shape of serpents, too many of them, and too noisily jingling, her hair a flamboyant red from the dye of the henna plant.

Golden bracelets and armbands gleamed upon each wrist and armthe gifts of grateful kings and princes whom she had served.

Then: only shields were the soft copper breastplates and the many copper bracelets upon their arms from shoulder to wrist, fit protection perhaps against atlatl dart and stone knife, but our good edges cut through them like cheese.

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.

Her jewelry was Bakelite, two chunky bracelets that clattered on her narrow wrist.

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

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

In a purple muumuu, braceleted and begemmed, she glided from chair to chair.

His long raven hair was tied back with a beaded red headband, his muscular thighs concealed by the fringed leather leggings, his biceps accented by the twin silver bracelets with the twinkling turquoise stones.

They were neck chained, and their wrists were fastened behind their backs with slave bracelets.

Squatting, crossed-legged, in the middle of this cushion was an extremely corpulent yellow man, who, except for the scarlet cincture about his loins, was clad entirely in jewelry jewels blazed from the rings which all but concealed his pudgy fingers and toes, and flashed from his golden anklets, bracelets, armlets, and necklaces.

With a grin at Cleer, Kurman took the privilege of slipping bracelets on the second prisoner.

She liked cheap jewelry, too, of the plastic, clunky variety, the weight of a dozen toy chains around her neck, arms rattling in bracelets from wrist to elbow.