coronet

Example Sentences

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When their sister, Mary, tried to break it up, she “nearly had her coronet knocked flying by the fractious pair.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

The back of the hand has an embroidered ducal coronet above the coat of arms of the family of the Dukes of Newcastle.

From BBC • May 1, 2023

Carroll enjoys playing the coronet and goes on limited outings a couple of times a week.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2020

Her hair, a spiky coronet, stands on end as if permanently electrified by the brain beneath.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017

She was about the same age as Lyra’s mother, to judge by the look of her in the moonlight, and she wore a little coronet of flowers around her head.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman