circlet/ˈsɜː(ɹ)klət/EtymologyFrom Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.nounA small circle.A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.“He wore in addition to his leathern trappings and jewelled ornaments a great circlet of gold about his brow in the exact centre of which was set an immense stone, the exact counterpart of that which I had seen upon the breast of the little old man at the atmosphere plant nearly twenty years before.”A crown without arches or a covering.“Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold.”A round body; an orb.“Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet.”