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Necklace

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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.

The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring.
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Necklace 

an ornament worn around the neck. A necklace may consist of shells, amber, pearls, stones, (including precious gems), or coins strung on a string.
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She looked and looked, longing to know which might be least valuable; and was determined in her choice at last, by fancying there was one necklace more frequently placed before her eyes than the rest.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were really of remarkable beauty, the finest that was obvious at first being a necklace of purple amethysts set in exquisite gold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
A child was brought in, who had swallowed a necklace.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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