diadem
noun
a crown.
Example Sentences
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"This population of diademed sifakas is already in bad shape," Bonadonna said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
The main feature of this design is a circular medallion bearing a diademed profile portrait of Queen Victoria to right, on a horizontally lined ground.
From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton Armstrong Howes
Summer flowers had passed, but bryony mantled the bushes in luxuriant beauty, and kingly teazles raised their diademed heads, and exultingly stretched forth their sceptred arms.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Plenipotent, majestic night settled on the throne of the supernal cosmos, diademed with a million twinkling jewels to dazzle his mundane subjects.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
This pale crescent was “the likeness of a kingly crown;” what it diademed was “the shape which shape had none.”
From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend
