trone
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trone
1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) < Anglo-French ≪ Latin trūtina < Greek trȳtánē balance, scales
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Lugs, ears; tacked, nailed; trone, an old word, properly signifying the public weighing-machine, and sometimes used for the pillory.
From Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Oh, how mistaken was the poet, who wrote, `Et du trone au cerenell le passage est terrible!'
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
De angels brought de tidings down, Just comin' from de trone.
From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Ihesu crist, þat made mone, Þine dremes turne to ioye; 1316 Þat wite þw that sittes in trone!
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
De angels march all roun' de trone, De angels march all roun' de trone, De angels march all roun' de trone, I can't stay behin'.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
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