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An armlet is a band or ring of jewellery worn around the upper arm — the thick part between shoulder and elbow, not the wrist. It may be gold, silver, beads, or cloth with metal, sometimes quite wide. You see armlets in fashion, in dance costume, and in some traditional dress. It is not a very everyday shop word; a seller might say “armband” or “upper-arm bracelet” instead. Though actually, an armband is often cloth or elastic, for sport or for a message, not jewellery. Some writers stretch armlet to any band on the arm, but the core picture is decoration worn high on the arm.
臂環(戴在上臂的飾品,不是手腕上的手鐲)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
armletnoun/ˈɑːmlət/
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A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes.
- Her little chambers drip with flower-like red, Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head, Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet She tramples all that winepress of the dead.
- The men wear their frizzly hair gathered into a flat circular knot over the left temple, which has a very knowing look, and in their ears cylinders of wood as thick as one's finger, and coloured red at the ends. Armlets and anklets of woven grass or of silver, with necklaces of beads or of small fruits, complete their attire.
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A small arm.
- an armlet of the sea
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。