annulet

American  

[an-yuh-lit] / ˈæn yə lɪt /

noun

1. Also called bandelet, bandlet.  Also called square and rabbet.  Architecture. an encircling band, molding, or fillet, as on the shaft of a column.

2. Entomology. a ring, usually colored, around or on the surface of an organ.

3. Heraldry. a ring, represented as a voided roundel, used especially as the cadence mark of a fifth son.

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annulet British  

/ ˈænjʊlɪt /

noun

1. architect a moulding in the form of a ring, as at the top of a column adjoining the capital

2. heraldry a ring-shaped device on a shield; hollow roundel

3. a little ring

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Etymology

Origin of annulet

1565–75; < Latin annul ( us ) ring ( annulus ) + -et; replacing earlier anlet < Anglo-French anelet, diminutive of Old French anel ring < Latin ānellus ring

Example Sentences

Among other devices it bore “a demi-Moor, in his proper colour, bound and captive, with annulets on his arms,” &c.

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Cole of Cornwall bears, inter alia, a bordure sable, charged alternately with bezants and annulets.

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With certain appendages it is the disk of the sun—and there are ceremonial paraphernalia, as annulets, placed on sand pictures or tied to helmets, which may be represented by a simple ring.

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Let the height of the capital be divided into three parts, of which one will form the abacus with its cymatium, the second the echinus with its annulets, and the third the necking.

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But for the badge of princehood, the fringed ribbon dependent from a gem-crusted annulet over each temple, his habiliments were the same as the Pharaoh's.

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