CIRCLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circlet mean? 

• CIRCLET (noun)
  The noun CIRCLET has 2 senses:

1. a small circle

2. decorated metal band worn around the head

  Familiarity information: CIRCLET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRCLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small circle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("circlet" is a kind of...):

circle (ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Decorated metal band worn around the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("circlet" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

 Context examples 

He advanced, throwing his little clear circlet of yellow radiance before him, while in single file we followed at his heels.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This precious vessel was now placed on my knee, and I was cordially invited to eat the circlet of delicate pastry upon it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I will myself put the diamond chain round your neck, and the circlet on your forehead,—which it will become: for nature, at least, has stamped her patent of nobility on this brow, Jane; and I will clasp the bracelets on these fine wrists, and load these fairy-like fingers with rings.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very erect, very haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume, and within the circlet of a band of gems.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)