Definition of "carkanet" []

• Alternative form of carcanet. (noun)

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• "Her dress corresponded with the magnificence of the banquet; a robe of cloth of Baudkins enriched, while it displayed, the beauties of her person; her wimple blazed with jewels, and a superb carkanet emitted its various rays from her bosom."
• "The carkanet was a large broad necklace of precious stones of all colors, set in various shapes, and fastened by gold links into each other."
• "Hung he in carkanet slung from the Scythian rock-tor."