necklet

She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside.
The Garden Party|Katherine Mansfield
Every man and woman in that place, they assured me, had such a necklet.
Green Mansions|W. H. Hudson
He opens the case and reveals a necklet of emeralds, any one of which is worth half the street.
Huntingtower|John Buchan
In addition to glass bead necklets, a necklet with heavy heart-shaped brass pendants.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar Thurston

The former had finished his toilet and was affectionately fastening a necklet of pearls around his wife's neck.
In the Van; or, The Builders|John Price-Brown

British Dictionary definitions for necklet

necklet

/ (ˈnɛklɪt) /

noun

an ornament worn round the neck

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