† beletten.
Obsolete.
A jewel, an ornament.
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1522 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 116 I beqwethe to my dowghter the steynyd clothes..and a golde corse with belettes harnes lesse.
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