The periapt is a vital neck slot item which serves as a much needed alternative to the "amulet", "necklace" or "pendant".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Some periapt lost in ancient times and just now resurfacing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

They created a unique artifact -- part radio, part recording and playback device, part ... hypnotic periapt, tuned to sniffer brainwaves: the Contequar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

He returned the periapt to my hand, and I examined it once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Almost instantly I discovered that my uncle's periapt was missing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

"So that anyone could have walked into the house and taken the periapt?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

"I submit that Mr. Harris's periapt was not designed as a good-luck charm at all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Pons closed the door behind him, shutting out our client's curious sister, and went directly over to the periapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

But I know my uncle's periapt was on my bureau when I went into the bathroom, and it was not there when I came out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Among the possessions be bestowed upon me was a valuable little periapt of beaten gold, set with four emeralds and a single ruby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Furthermore, the actual reappearance of this periapt is not adequate grounds for adducing that our client did not know what he was talking about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

I have no doubt he overheard his brother say he meant to have a bath, and slipped back into the house to take the periapt while Sidney was in his bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

It is apodeictic that, while perhaps obscure, words like "skirr" and "periapt" serve uniquely expressive purposes and cannot be subrogated by other, more commonplace words.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gentleman's C] Reference

In this prosaic fashion began one of Solar Pons 'favorite adventures, for Mr. Sidney Harris had come to consult Pons about the loss of a jeweled amulet, to which he referred constantly as "my uncle's periapt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Manifestly Pons had made up his mind to find the purloined periapt, for he smiled and suggested, "Perhaps we ought just to run out to your home and look around a little in the hope of discovering the lost amulet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Perhaps the problem affords nothing in the way of evidence, but I hesitated to go to the police and have the pawn-shops watched, because I do not really know that my uncle's periapt has as much actual value as it has intrinsic value to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Elsewhere, fantasy game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed out the utility of griseous (streaked or mixed with gray) in describing rocks and minerals. .    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

No, You may depend upon it, Parker, our client meant and believed and knew just what he said; as he put it, the long and the short of it is that the periapt was on the bureau when he went to take his bath, and it was not there when he came back; now it is some three hours, almost four, since that time, and here it is back on the bureau once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

I accepted my uncle's periapt, and have carried it ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Let us just go back into the city and surrender the periapt to Mr.Harris. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

I'm eyeing vaticinate, periapt, and exuviate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drinking] Reference

Among them was my uncle's periapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

He had begun to wonder about the periapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Charles is the man who purloined the periapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]

Have you your uncle's periapt? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure of the Purloined Periapt]