armletn.
/ˈɑːmlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈɑrmlət/ 1. A ring or band worn round the arm, typically for ornamentation or as part of a uniform.Sometimes distinguished from a bracelet, which usually designates a ring worn round the wrist.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > arm or leg ornament > [noun] > bracelet or armlet
arm circlea1382
poignet1388
bracelet1438
armila1475
armlet1481
bracel?1533
embracelet1537
arm-ring1580
wristband1585
armilet1617
armilla1677
rakhi1829
wristlet1851
arm-coil1866
arm-cylinder1937
1481 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 17 For lxvj. armeletes j.d.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxi. 21 Lernynge is vnto a wyse man..like an armlett vpon his right arme.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. G Their fingers are decked with gold, siluer, and precious stones, their wristes with bracelets, and armlets of gold.
1685 J. Dryden Albion & Albanius iii. 22 Ev'ry Nymph of the flood, her Tresses rending, Throws of her Armlet of Pearl in the Main.
1761 R. O. Cambridge Acct. War in India Introd. p. xxiv Above his elbows, armlets set with diamonds.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 209 An armlet for the roundest arm on earth.
1879 G. F. Maclear Celts ii. 13 They wear..bracelets and armlets.
1914 Times 18 Mar. 6/3 They..issue metal identification discs and armlets.
1939 ‘N. Shute’ Ordeal ii. 39 There was a man there, wearing an armlet.
2003 N. Rush Mortals xxxiv. 607 He was wildlooking, a rustic, very thin, wearing seedpod armlets.
2. A small inlet of the sea or branch of a river. Cf. arm n.1 8a, 11.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun] > branch
arma1398
armleta1552
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sprout1676
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anabranch1834
distributary1863
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea
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updraught14..
armleta1552
land-featherc1582
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vent1604
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re-entrant1893
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 5 I markid diverse Armelettes breking out of the 2. Streames.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. ix. f. 21v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The water seperateth it selfe into two armelettes [1587 armelets].
1797 T. Connelly & T. Higgins Diccionario Nuevo y Completo de las Lenguas Española é Inglesa I. 53/1 An armlet of the sea.
1835 Elements Logical & Exper. Sci. x. 209 When the sea flows into a bay or armlet of the sea, [etc.].
1864 Á. Vámbéry Trav. Central Asia 149 In the main stream it was well enough, but in the armlets at the side we settled every ten paces on the sand.
1926 C. C. Vyvyan Jrnl. 11 July in Ladies, Gwich'in, & Rat (1998) 214/2 They shoved us aX [i.e. across] a swift armlet of the river both waist deep.
2012 New Era (Windhoek) (Nexis) 12 Apr. The slow-flowing Kavango River..trickles away in a thousand little armlets in the Kalahari Basin.
3. A piece of armour for the arm.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour
bracer?a1400
bracec1400
sleeve1465
plate-sleeve1578
bracelet1580
monion1652
brachal1658
arm piece1659
armlet1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Armlet, a piece of Armour for the Arm.
1835 M. H. Rankin tr. M. D'Azeglio Hector Fieramosca xiii. 206 On lifting the armlets, cuirasses and greaves..he pronounced them proof against any blow whatever.
1840 J. B. Fraser Trav. Koordistan I. 85 They case themselves in armour like knights of old..with helmet and armlets.
1876 Proc. Royal. Geogr. Soc. London 20 256 They were all in war costume, which consists of helmet, shield, and armlet.
1956 Slavonic & East European Rev. 34 307 A suit of armour, helmet, armlet, cuisse, and gauntlet cost about 8 grzywny at the very least.
1994 Independent (Nexis) 19 Mar. 32 The viewer is tempted to identify specific pieces of armour: here a greave, there an armlet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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