Definition of "circlet"

circlet

/ˈsɜː(ɹ)klət/

noun
plural circlets
1. A small circle.
2. A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.
  Quotations
  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.
  1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co.; republished as “Thuvia”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, page 69
3. A crown without arches or a covering.
  Quotations
  Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 5
4. A round body; an orb.
  Quotations
  Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet.
  1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,