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A circlet is a thin band, often of gold, silver, or jewels, worn as an ornament around the head — like a very small, light crown — or sometimes around the arm. It is a dress-and-story word more than a street word: you meet it in fairy tales, museum labels, wedding jewellery, and fantasy books. A full crown is heavier and says “I rule”; a circlet is narrower and often says “this is pretty” or “this is for a ceremony.” Though actually, in older times a simple metal band around the head could also mark rank, so the line between circlet and small crown is not always tidy. It is not just any little circle (a ring on a finger is not a circlet). The shape is a circle, but the point is that you wear it as a band.
細冠、頭環(窄的金屬或珠寶箍,戴在頭上或臂上)
組成From Middle French cerclet, a diminutive of cercle (“circle”): a little circle-band.
同家族的字
- circleFrench cercle is the same family; a circlet is a small circle-shaped band you wear
原始詞典資料4 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。
circletnoun/ˈsɜːklət/
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A small circle.
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A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.
- He wore in addition to his leathern trappings and jewelled ornaments a great circlet of gold about his brow in the exact centre of which was set an immense stone, the exact counterpart of that which I had seen upon the breast of the little old man at the atmosphere plant nearly twenty years before.
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A crown without arches or a covering.
- Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold.
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A round body; an orb.
- Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet.
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。