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• n  a small circle
• n  decorated metal band worn around the head

• That forms a circlet of cheese that melts when the pie is in the oven.
• They left the tracks of their tiny fingernails on each other's faces, the beautiful, even, red circlet of their teeth marks in each other's soft flesh.
• Now the fingers and hands of my attendants are stretching toward my neck to remove a smooth circlet of Austrian pearls.