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crowned

[ kround ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

characterized by or having a crown crow crown (often used in combination):
a crowned signet ring; a low-crowned fedora.
originating from or founded on the royal crown crow crown or its associated dignity, sovereignty, etc.:
crowned despotism.

Origin of crowned¹

First recorded in 1200–50, crowned is from the Middle English word crouned. See crown, -ed ²

No Jewish woman has been crowned Miss America since Bess Myerson won in 1945.

The winner, who will be crowned on television Friday, gets $250,000.

In April, the 19-year-old brunette in an emerald gown was crowned Miss Honduras.

And a woman—proud, strong, “again a rebel, [who] determines she will be crowned once again.”

Let us rejoice that Swedish academicians, rather better inspired than they have been these last 15 years, have crowned this man.

Myiozetetes similis texensis (Giraud): Vermilion-crowned Flycatcher.

And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire.

Then when my hair had been parted and smoothed down, I crowned myself with my campaign hat at the dashingest possible tilt.

Many of the officials had on high-crowned hats decorated with bunches of feathers and crimson tassels.

It was crowned by a wide-brimmed bowler hat which the man wore pressed down upon his ears like a Jew pedlar.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

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