locket
noun
a small case for a miniature portrait, a lock of hair, or other keepsake, usually worn on a necklace.
lockets
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pluralof locket.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Redlands business Precious Creature initially only offered full-body taxidermy of pets until customers started suggesting other ideas, such as lockets containing patches of fur and cat-tail necklaces.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Prince Albert gave her the gift of a bracelet with eight lockets attached to it - each containing a lock of hair from one of their eight children.
From BBC ● May 28, 2022
They were memorialized in art and photography; their hair became keepsakes tucked in lockets and pins.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022
She eventually expanded into jewelry, offering oval filigree lockets, enamel vermeil zodiac charms and stackable gold bands that riff on 15th-century poesy rings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
There were girls with squeaky voices or soft altos, plump girls and thin ones, babyish girls who wore heart lockets and girls who were old before their time and worked as secretaries in insurance firms.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
