pschent
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pschent
1805–15; < Greek pschént < Egyptian pʾ-sh̬mty, equivalent to pʾ- deictic + sh̬m powerful + ty feminine dual marker
Example Sentences
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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
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
A reddish figure with a hawk's-head crowned with the pschent, the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, bore a disc containing a winged globe, and seemed to watch on the threshold of the tomb.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de)
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
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