Kneelet

Quick meaning: Kneelet is a noun meaning A band or piece of jewellery worn around the knee.

Meaning

A band or piece of jewellery worn around the knee.

Example Sentences

1991, Petru Popescu, Amazon Beaming, New York: Viking, “The Vanishing Tribe,” Chapter 4, p. 35, His calves bulged from ligatures of palm fiber tied under his knees, the same type of kneelets Columbus had reported after his first voyage to the New World.

One of the wrestlers is a bald man with a very large stomach: he wears a pair of canvas trousers rolled up at the bottoms, as though he were going paddling. His opponent wears black tights, and leather kneelets which look as if they had come off an old cab-horse.

Clytæmnestra and her accomplice, Ægisthus, overawing the simple peasants of Mycenæ in regal pomp […] he in the shining cuirass and diadem, the slim golden armlets, anklets, kneelets, with the sharp bronze sword in its glittering sheath, and the dagger worth a petty chieftain’s ransom by his side […]

[They] would have dreaded nothing more than that her ridiculous distress should become publicly known, if they had worn genouillères, that is to say, knee-pieces. A necessary part of a suit of armour was distinguished by this name in the days of chivalry; and the article of dress which corresponds to it may be called kneelets, if for a new article we strike a new word in that mint of analogy, from which whatever is lawfully coined comes forth as the King’s English.

Word Forms

• kneelets

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kneepiece, knee-band, kneeband, knee, kneebuckle, leglet.

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