diadem
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Also stolen was a diadem that once belonged to the Empress Eugenie, which has nearly 2,000 diamonds; and a necklace that once belonged to Marie-Amelie, the last queen of France.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Almost 1 meter in diameter, the vessel entombed a woman in her late 20s with a shining silver diadem on her forehead.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
The initial notes bore a portrait of the queen wearing the family’s diamond diadem.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
This new statue in York has a traditional design - with the Queen in the robes of the Order of the Garter and wearing the George IV diadem.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
A bloodlike substance, dark and tarry, seemed to be leaking from the diadem.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
According to the authorities, eight items were taken including diadems, necklaces, ear-rings and brooches.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
However huge their historical and cultural value, crowns and diadems can easily be broken apart and sold in bits.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Some were jewel-encrusted diadems worn by Angkor royalty as far back as the 9th century.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
As for the people, they will get help wherever they can; prayers and spells and amulets combine ankhs, crosses, old deities, seven-point diadems, the archangel Gabriel.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2015
Cloaks of turkey feathers fluttered from their shoulders; huge feather diadems exploded gaudily round their heads.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"This population of diademed sifakas is already in bad shape," Bonadonna said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
Timour—he Whom the astonished people saw Striding o'er empires haughtily A diademed outlaw!
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
At the same time I was puzzled with certain ornaments below the raised hand of the diademed lady, which I could not explain.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
North and south, the horizon was a chaotic sky land of pinnacles, spired and minareted, steepled and turreted and domed, each diademed with its green and argent of eternal ice and snow.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
Perhaps if the diademed tyrants had treated it with indifference, the effects would have been otherwise.
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames
When home, he dwells in a spacious, squatty, fenced-in, brownstone mansion, diademing St. Paul's exclusive Crocus Hill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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