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necklace: see jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion.
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| In necklacing a tire filled with gasoline and rags is placed around the body of the victim (who usually has been severely, even mortally, beaten) and set light. I mean, the necklacing is not beautiful, you know, and it was done largely by young people, and you wonder how that could have been thought to advance the struggle, the cause. The image has been extended in our times by the use of the ironic and euphemistic term necklacing in South Africa. |
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