pschent

American  

[skent, pskent] / skɛnt, pskɛnt /

noun

1. the double crown worn by ancient Egyptian kings, symbolic of dominion over Upper and Lower Egypt, which had previously been separate kingdoms.

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Etymology

Origin of pschent

1805–15; < Greek pschént < Egyptian pʾ-sh̬mty, equivalent to pʾ- deictic + sh̬m powerful + ty feminine dual marker

Example Sentences

Earthly greatness is the perishable step to the imperishable palace of Osiris, where our dead monarchs now sit enthroned around him, their heads circled with the pschent and their hands grasping the scarab sceptre.

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis

From the ear pieces of the pschent streamed a necklace of emeralds; its first strand passed under her determined chin; the others lay in circles against her bare throat.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

What colossal statues, hewn out of one block of stone and towering to the sky, with the pschent crowns of their diadems!

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis

On her head was the great gold pschent of Egyptian gods and kings; emeralds, the national stone of the Tuareg, were set in it, tracing and retracing her name in Tifinar characters.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

By my granite shape of yore Passed the priests, with stately pschent, And the mystic boat upbore, Emblemed and magnificent.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes