mural crown
Americannoun
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a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
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Also called mural coronet. Heraldry. a representation of an embattled coronet, often appearing on municipal arms.
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Origin of mural crown
First recorded in 1540–50
Example Sentences
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His Roman badges - mural crown, centurion, praetor - glittered on his shirt collar.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Another aspect of her character is that of a warlike goddess, armed with spear or bow, sometimes wearing a mural crown, as sovereign lady and protectress of the locality where she was worshipped.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
The centre figure, ten feet high, is Commerce, with her mural crown, upon two dolphins and a shell.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
I may but fill a ditch for a better to mount upon and win the mural crown.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
O manly, majestic Rome, with thy sevenfold mural crown all broken at thy feet, why art thou here?
From Eighth Reader by Baldwin, James
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