0 a small piece of jewellery that opens to show a small picture or piece of hair, usually worn on a chain around a person's neck --
1 a small item of jewelry that opens to show a picture of someone or a piece of hair, which is usually worn on a chain around the neck --
She's cheerful with her neighbors, but she misses her husband and prizes a locket she wears that contains his picture.
Others, like repouss are used to decorate thin funerary bands, necklaces and lockets (or bullae).
Lockets usually hold only one or two photographs, but some specially made lockets can hold up to eight.
The enkolpia may have originated from the eucharistic lockets once worn by monks in order to be able to communicate themselves when they travelled.
Kreacher was forced to drink the potion protecting the locket to test its effectiveness.
However, one individual buys a locket from her.
While looking at these pictures, he notices that she is wearing the locket he gave her in the paintings.
He gives the girl the locket and whispered in her ears.
