circlet

Definition

A small circle.

Etymology

From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold."
• "Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet."