bracelet

From Old French bracelet, diminutive form of bras (“arm”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪslət/, /ˈbɹeɪslɪt/

bracelet (plural bracelets)

1. A band or chain worn around the wrist as jewelry/jewellery or an ornament.
2. The strap of a wristwatch, used to secure it around the wrist.
3. (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A handcuff.
4. (historical) A piece of defensive armour for the arm.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

• awareness bracelet
• charm bracelet
• friendship bracelet

• armband
• bangle
• -let

• brasselet (obsolete)

From Middle French bracelet, from Old French bracelet, diminutive form of bras (“arm”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.slɛ/

bracelet m (plural bracelets)

1. bracelet

• “bracelet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• célébrât

From Old French bracelet, diminutive form of bras (“arm”).

bracelet m (plural bracelés or braceletz)

1. bracelet (jewelry)
2. bracelet (armor)

• bracelet on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

bracelet m (oblique plural bracelez or braceletz, nominative singular bracelez or braceletz, nominative plural bracelet)

1. diminutive of bras (“arm”)
2. bracelet (jewelry)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bracelet)
• bracelet on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature: Volume 4, January 1, 1816 by John Brown page 287
• https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=g_pPAAAAMAAJ&rdid=book-g_pPAAAAMAAJ&rdot=1