Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Circlet   Listen
noun
Circlet  n.  
1.
A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. "Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled."
2.
A round body; an orb. "Fairest of stars... that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet."
3.
A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table. (Prov. Eng.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Circlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet plainer. He stood convicted, a chronic violator of the immutable rule. And he knew, likewise, there was but one way out of the coil—and took it, there in his bedroom, vividly ringed about by the obscene and indecent circlet of his lights which kept away the blessed, cursed darkness while the suicide's ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... typifying Soda Springs Valley as a shimmering prairie of mesquite. Flowered upland, dead lowland, brush, cactus, volcanic rock, sand, each of these for the time being occupied the whole space, broad as the sea. In the circlet of the mountains was room ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... stairs that evening, in the gray frock and the diamond circlet, she smiled the little smile ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... seek a cooler atmosphere. As my door opens towards the east, the first object that met my view was the Northern Crown. My attention was at once arrested by the sight of a strange star outside the crown' (that is, outside the circlet of stars forming the diadem, not outside the constellation itself). The new star 'was then certainly quite as bright—I rather thought more so—as its neighbour Alphecca,' the chief gem of the crown. 'I was so much struck with its appearance, that I exclaimed to those indoors, "Why, here is a new ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor
... from under his cloak a ring, a circlet of gold holding a red stone with a flaming heart, and put it on my finger. There pierced through me a pang intenser than any I had ever experienced, in which all the love and sorrow I had ever known seemed to be suddenly mingled, ...
— The Child of the Dawn • Arthur Christopher Benson


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com