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annulet

[ an-yuh-lit ]

noun

  1. Also called bandelet, bandlet,. Architecture. an encircling band, molding, or fillet, as on the shaft of a column.
  2. Entomology. a ring, usually colored, around or on the surface of an organ.
  3. Heraldry. a ring, represented as a voided roundel, used especially as the cadence mark of a fifth son.


annulet

/ ˈæʊɪ /

noun

  1. architect a moulding in the form of a ring, as at the top of a column adjoining the capital
  2. heraldry a ring-shaped device on a shield; hollow roundel
  3. a little ring
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of annulet1

1565–75; < Latin annul ( us ) ring ( annulus ) + -et; replacing earlier anlet < Anglo-French anelet, diminutive of Old French anel ring < Latin Աܲ ring
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of annulet1

C16: from Latin Գܱܲ ring + -et
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Among other devices it bore “a demi-Moor, in his proper colour, bound and captive, with annulets on his arms,” &c.

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Cole of Cornwall bears, inter alia, a bordure sable, charged alternately with bezants and annulets.

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With certain appendages it is the disk of the sun—and there are ceremonial paraphernalia, as annulets, placed on sand pictures or tied to helmets, which may be represented by a simple ring.

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Let the height of the capital be divided into three parts, of which one will form the abacus with its cymatium, the second the echinus with its annulets, and the third the necking.

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But for the badge of princehood, the fringed ribbon dependent from a gem-crusted annulet over each temple, his habiliments were the same as the Pharaoh's.

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