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Nov 19, 2008
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Carcanet

A small chain of jewels for the neck. (French, carcan, an iron collar.)

“Like captain jewels in a carcanet.”

Shakespeare: Sonnets.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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