coronet
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrəˌnɛt/
:
coronita
- I've got no use for 'em - earls and marquises goin' around as if they was lords of creation, wearin' their coronets.
- wearing a coronet
- coronet of a baron
Examples
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I have watched the princess wearing a coronet of foliage squeeze milk from her breast to nourish our regal infant.
Fiction book (1991) -
Sergey was a prince from the bootheels up, wearing silver-chased armor and a gold coronet on his old-fashioned great helmet.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, none wearing a coronet.
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Hortense, do not drop that coronet.
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On her head is a coronet of lignum vitae.
Fiction book (1996) -
When she grew too old for pigtails, her mother wound the braids around her head in a coronet.
Fiction book (1999) -
Then he settled back, staring out of the window at the illuminated coronets on the spire of the Chrysler Building.
Fiction book (1995) -
She loosened her nearly blond hair, caught up in a prim coronet at her nape, and pinched her cheeks.
Fiction book (2002) -
For now sits expectation in the air... and hides a sword, from hilts unto the point, with crowns imperial, crowns and coronets... promised to Harry and his followers.
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At the royal ceremony, she proudly wore a coronet that signified her noble heritage.
Synonyms
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3.0
A circular decorative object worn on the head as a sign of power or victory
How Regal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Coronet comes from Latin corona meaning 'garland' or 'crown' and the small ending -et meaning 'little'. So a coronet is literally a 'little crown', used by nobles to show rank below a king or queen.