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English
Noun
bracelets
- plural of bracelet
Noun
bracelets pl (plural only)
- (colloquial) handcuffs
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- Of thirty bare yeares haue I
twice twenty bin enraged,
& of forty bin three tymes fifteene
in durance soundlie caged,
On yͤ lordlie loftes of Bedlam
with stubble softe & dainty,
braue braceletts Strong, sweet whips ding dong
with wholesome hunger plenty
1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Three Tools of Death:"Sergeant," said Inspector Gilder, eyeing the black hands with wrath, "aren't you putting the bracelets on this fellow; he looks pretty dangerous."
Verb
bracelets
- third-person singular simple present indicative of bracelet
French
Pronunciation
Noun
bracelets m
- plural of bracelet