A piece of jewelry worn around the wrist.
From Old French “bracelet,” a diminutive of “brace,” meaning “arm,” from Latin “bracchium,” meaning “arm.” It literally began as a “little thing for the arm.”
A bracelet is, historically, an arm decoration that slowly slid down and settled at the wrist. The name reminds you that your wrist is just the edge of your arm in the eyes of older languages.
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