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单词 coronet
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Definition of coronet in English:

coronet

noun ˈkɒr(ə)nɪt
  • 1A small or relatively simple crown, especially as worn by lesser royalty and peers or peeresses.

    (尤指王族、贵族或贵妇等戴的)小冠冕

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She had on a beautiful necklace of sparkling emeralds, with a diamond coronet.
    • Wearing a golden coronet as a Princess of the Blood Royal, she was present at the Coronation of her parents in Westminster Abbey in May, 1937.
    • Thus equipped, she was crowned, with all the trumpets sounding; and, though our account does not mention it, no doubt all the peers and peeresses put on their coronets at that moment.
    • On the one hand, the pieces were easily distinguishable by easily recognisable symbols atop a pedestal - the King with a crown, the Queen with a coronet and the bishop by a mitre.
    • All of this was crowed with a delicate, simple gold coronet.
    Synonyms
    crown, diadem, tiara, circlet, chaplet, fillet, garland, wreath
    literary coronal
    1. 1.1 A circular decoration for the head, especially one made of flowers.
      冠状头饰(尤指花冠)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The ceremony that was about to happen used four props - the robes of the Orianah's office, the flower coronet that the Orianah wore, a red pear, and lemon juice.
  • 2A ring of bone at the base of a deer's antler.

    (鹿角底部的)环状骨

  • 3The band of tissue on the lowest part of a horse's pastern, containing the horn-producing cells from which the hoof grows.

    (马的)蹄冠

Derivatives

  • coroneted

  • adjective
    • In the rest of the ceremony, Koras was coroneted and instructed to find a bride in a year.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They've declared peace until their new king is coroneted.
      • He wept where he knelt, against the wall outside the throne room, the room he and Fallen had been coroneted in a thousand years earlier.
      • He could only pray his sickness held out as he was coroneted.
      • She was the first to marry the king, Andin's father, once he was coroneted.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French coronete 'small crown or garland', diminutive of corone (see crown).

Definition of coronet in US English:

coronet

noun
  • 1A small or relatively simple crown, especially as worn by lesser royalty and peers or peeresses.

    (尤指王族、贵族或贵妇等戴的)小冠冕

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wearing a golden coronet as a Princess of the Blood Royal, she was present at the Coronation of her parents in Westminster Abbey in May, 1937.
    • On the one hand, the pieces were easily distinguishable by easily recognisable symbols atop a pedestal - the King with a crown, the Queen with a coronet and the bishop by a mitre.
    • Thus equipped, she was crowned, with all the trumpets sounding; and, though our account does not mention it, no doubt all the peers and peeresses put on their coronets at that moment.
    • She had on a beautiful necklace of sparkling emeralds, with a diamond coronet.
    • All of this was crowed with a delicate, simple gold coronet.
    Synonyms
    crown, diadem, tiara, circlet, chaplet, fillet, garland, wreath
    1. 1.1 A circular decoration for the head, especially one made of flowers.
      冠状头饰(尤指花冠)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The ceremony that was about to happen used four props - the robes of the Orianah's office, the flower coronet that the Orianah wore, a red pear, and lemon juice.
  • 2

    another term for burr (sense 7 of the noun)
  • 3The band of tissue on the lowest part of a horse's pastern, containing the horn-producing cells from which the hoof grows.

    (马的)蹄冠

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French coronete ‘small crown or garland’, diminutive of corone (see crown).

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