Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BANGLE
BANGLE
Definitions of BANGLE
- A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
- (transitive, obsolete) to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
- (obsolete or dialectal) to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).
- (intransitive) (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
- (intransitive) to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.
- (dialectal) The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs
Number of letters
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Is palindrome
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Examples of Using BANGLE in a Sentence
- Other early examples of bangles in ancient India include copper samples from the excavations at Mahurjhari, followed by the decorated bangles belonging to the Mauryan Empire (322–185 BC) and the gold bangle samples from the historic site of Taxila (6th century BC).
- The barbers and knife-sharpeners, robbers, bangle sellers and social and economic thieves, banjaras, odas, darjis, fakirs and sadhus.
- While the Macerata Opera has organized the Macerata Opera Festival as a summer opera festival, it actually began in 1921 with a performance of Verdi's Aida in the 3,000 seat (plus 6,000 standing places) Arena Sferisterio, a huge neoclassical arena erected in the 1820s as a stadium for a form of handball called pallone al bracciale, a sort of game with ball and bangle.
- The artefacts of this period comprised a copper bangle, a copper arrowhead, bangles of terracotta, beads of carnelian, lapis lazuli and steatite, bone point, stone saddle and quern.
- The Muthi Kharu is a traditional and ethnic bangle worn in marriages by the bride also while celebrating Bihu festival in Assam extensively.
- The sannyasinis of Saradeswari Ashram wear traditional red bordered Saree and also wear Shankhaa(a conch bangle which represents a married Bengali woman), because Sri sri ma Sarada devi didn't like women living like sanyassins and wearing ochre, therefore Gauri Maa initiated the ritual of marrying the ashramite sannyasinis with Shaligram narayan or Jagannath ji, so that they can live like married women.
- Kujras (vegetable sellers), Ansars (weavers), Manihars (bangle dealers), Darzis (tailors), and Nais (barbers) enjoy equal social status but maintain the rule of caste endogamy, Village endogamy is also common among the Muslims and some lower Hindu castes but not among the uppercaste Hindus.
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