carcanet

noun

1. (archaic)A richly decorative collar.

   “Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, / Or captain jewels in the carcanet.”

   “Lo you! let me have a blue robe, and—search for the ruby carcanet, which was part of the King of Cyprus's ransom—it is either in the steel-casket, or somewhere else.”

   “[H]e cared nothing for curiously woven shrouds, and feathered mantles, and carcanets of pearl beads, and jars of quaint pottery […]”

   “There flying Elwing came to him, / and flame was in the darkness lit; / more bright than light of diamond / the fire upon her carcanet.”