Meanings
plural armlets
- A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes.
Her little chambers drip with flower-like red, Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head, Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet She tramples all that winepress of the dead.
1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris1 more example
The men wear their frizzly hair gathered into a flat circular knot over the left temple, which has a very knowing look, and in their ears cylinders of wood as thick as one's finger, and coloured red at the ends. Armlets and anklets of woven grass or of silver, with necklaces of beads or of small fruits, complete their attire.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 79Synonyms: armring
- A small arm.
an armlet of the sea
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes.
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Origin
From arm + -let. Compare frontlet.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مِعْضَد, دُمْلُوج
- مِعْضَد (miʕḍad)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
- دُمْلُوج (dumlūj)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Chinese Mandarin 臂釧 /臂钏
- 臂釧 /臂钏 (bì chuàn)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Finnish käsivarsinauha
- käsivarsinauhaA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
French brassard
- brassardA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
German Armreif, Armbinde
- ArmreifA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
- ArmbindeA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Greek περιβραχιόνιο
- περιβραχιόνιο (perivrachiónio)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Hindi अंगद, वलय
- अंगद (aṅgad)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
- वलय (valay)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Hungarian karkötő, karperec
- karkötőA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
- karperecA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Italian braccialetto
- braccialettoA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Persian بازوبند
- بازوبند (bâzuband)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Polish bransoleta na ramię
- bransoleta na ramięA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Romanian brățară
- brățarăA band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Russian нарука́вник, брасле́т
- нарука́вник (narukávnik)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
- брасле́т (braslét)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
Spanish carcax (karkash)
- carcax (karkash)A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes
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Cite this entry
armlet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/armlet
“armlet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/armlet. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “armlet,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/armlet.
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