Pompus vs Bangle - What's the difference?
pompus | bangle |
A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
* 1919 ,
(obsolete) To waste, fritter (away).
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.273:
pompus
Not English
Pompus has no English definition. It may be misspelled.bangle
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia bangle) From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists.
Etymology 2
Verb
(bangl)- Thus betwixt hope and fear, suspicions, angersbetwixt falling in, falling out, etc., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times […].