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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Carcanet

Say, that I lingered with you at your shop,
To see the making of her carcanet,
And that to-morrow you will bring it home.
Shakespeare.—Comedy of Errors, Act III. Scene 1.

In Harrington’s Orlando Furioso, we have—
About his neck a carknet rich he ware.
Knight’s Shakespeare.—Supra.