[f. ANKLE + -LET, after bracelet, Fr. bracelet.] An ornament (or fetter) for the ankle; an ankle-ring.
1832. Lander, Exped. Niger, III. xviii. 146. These women wore large ivory anklets.
c. 1850. Christm. Stories, 292. The iron anklets to which our chains had been fastened.
1859. Tennent, Ceylon, II. IX. v. 514. Graceful limbs decorated with armlets, anklets and rings.
