bangle

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Related topics: Jewellery

ban·gle /ˈbæŋɡəl/ noun [countable]  DCJa solid band of gold, silver etc that you wear loosely around your wrist as jewellery 手镯 SYN bracelet →4  See picture of 见图 JEWELLERY →5 see picture at 见图 jewellery

Examples from the Corpus

bangle• Who knew when she might collapse in a heap of baubles and bangles?• She hung herself around with cheap earrings and necklaces and bangles.• At the end of the summer, Margarett was so grateful she gave Mrs Ramsdell a gold bangle.• I was playing with her as usual and casting furtive glances at her six heavy gold bangles.• On her last visit I'd been unable to take my eyes off her gold earrings and her bangles.• The shell-lie bangles are actually goat's nails.• Cleave's wife, Lydia, arrives in a flurry of bangles and cigarette smoke.• Choose from a pearl bracelet with matching face, a patterned silver bangle, or a gilt-finished double strand bracelet.Origin bangle (1700-1800) Hindi bangli

ban·gle nounChineseSyllable  

etc of a solid silver Corpus band gold,

bangle
ban‧gle /ˈbæŋɡəl/ noun [countable]a solid band of gold, silver etc that you wear loosely around your wrist as jewellery
   SYN  bracelet

ban·gleBrE /ˈbæŋɡl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbæŋɡl/ 🔊 noun

a piece of jewellery in the form of a large ring of gold, silver, etc. worn loosely around the wrist 手镯