Definitions for carcanets

carcanets car·ca·net

Spelling: [kahr-kuh-net, -nit]
IPA: /ˈkɑr kəˌnɛt, -nɪt/

Carcanets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in carcanets (aaccenrst).

Definitions for carcanets

noun

  1. a woman's ornamental circlet for the hair, often of gold decorated with jewels or pearls.

Origin of carcanets

1520-30; carcan choker Middle French, equivalent to carc- throat (Germanic) + -an ring (Latin ānus) + -et

Examples for carcanets

Paragon of jewels enchased in a carcanet of dazzling brilliants!

On her dress was no ornament whatever, neither was there a ring on her hand, or a necklace or carcanet about her neck.

You have £2000 worth of jewels over what is in the paper; but the carcanet shall be forthcoming.

Over his clustering hair he wore a carcanet of diamonds, surmounted by the precious plumage of the bird of Paradise.

The editor was here obliged to omit a score of pages, in which the only thing worth preserving was a carcanet of sulphur springs.

But he must indeed have been in a hurry when, as would here seem, he confounded 'casket' and 'carcanet'.

And sodaynly caught hir by the hayre of the head, and in steade of a carcanet placed a roape about her necke.

Col. Turner afterwards restored the carcanet, the only jewel which he had not restored before.

Nowadays they have restored the carcanet and kept the rivière as well, both terms being in common use.

carcanet, the diminutive of carcan, a chain;—it means a necklace.

Word Value for carcanets
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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