crowned

[ kround ]

adjective

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

Origin of crowned

First recorded in 1200–50, crowned is from the Middle English word crouned.See crown, -ed²

No Jewish woman has been crowned Miss America since Bess Myerson won in 1945.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America? | Emily Shire | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST
The winner, who will be crowned on television Friday, gets $250,000.
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush | Sujay Kumar | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In April, the 19-year-old brunette in an emerald gown was crowned Miss Honduras.
The Shocking Death of Miss Honduras | Romina Ruiz-Goiriena | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And a woman—proud, strong, “again a rebel, [who] determines she will be crowned once again.”
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun | Katie Baker | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Let us rejoice that Swedish academicians, rather better inspired than they have been these last 15 years, have crowned this man.
Nobel Prize Winner Modiano’s Magical Musical Prose About Paris | Pierre Assouline | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

Myiozetetes similis texensis (Giraud): Vermilion-crowned Flycatcher.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula | Erwin E. Klaas
And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
Then when my hair had been parted and smoothed down, I crowned myself with my campaign hat at the dashingest possible tilt.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson Lloyd
Many of the officials had on high-crowned hats decorated with bunches of feathers and crimson tassels.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. Pike
It was crowned by a wide-brimmed bowler hat which the man wore pressed down upon his ears like a Jew pedlar.
Dope | Sax Rohmer

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