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noun
- An article of jewelry/jewellery that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.
- a of coral islands
Translations: - French: collier
- German: Halskette
- Italian: collana
- Spanish: collar
verb (necklac, ing)
- (South African) A method of informal execution in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's neck, and set on fire.
- May 29 2003: The Star:
- :Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.
- 2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin
- :Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed
- 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- :The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle?.
adjective (no (compar) or (superl))
- (South African) Describing a method of murder.
- 4 August, 2004 Headline Pretoria News: Necklacing: 7 held.
- :Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.
- 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
- :Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone? were also subjected to a execution
- 2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- :In the fluidly unfolding events of a murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?
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