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esclavage (n.)
chain or bead necklace worn by women and popular mid-18c., 1758, from French
esclavage
, literally "slavery" (16c.), from
esclave
(13c.) "slave" (see
slave
(n.)). So called from fancied resemblance to a slave's neck chains.
