Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bandlet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring, and usually at the top of the column; an annulet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A small
band orfillet ; any little band or flatmoulding , compassing acolumn , like aring .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their long, graceful drapery was as white as snow; and each wore loosely, beneath the rounded bosom, a dark-blue zone, or bandelet, studded, like the skies at midnight, with little silver stars.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827 Various
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Roman empress, shod with light sandals, from which issued the beautiful naked feet, and the toes adorned with costly rings, her exquisitely moulded arms ornamented with massive gold bracelets; her short curly hair fastened together by a gold bandelet, which rose over the forehead in the shape of a diadem, bejewelled with precious diamonds; the mantle of purple, fringed with gold and placed on the shoulders -- was in this costume of such a wonderful beauty, that men gazed at her with astonishment and women with envy.
Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843
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