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
The greenstone ornaments are typical of the Late Classic period and the mask and diadem are known to be exclusive to Maya royalty.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024
If you're looking at it and wondering why it seems familiar, it might be because that diadem was seen on stamps from the late Queen's reign.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Museum officials tried to hide the diadem and other objects in a secret basement.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
I remove the diadem and set it in front of her.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
Still, that vision of decorative femininity, complete with flowing capes and diadems, most resembles a live-action version of “Frozen” meets ”Game of Thrones.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2017
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
Beneath her fingernails, the frost makes billions of tiny diadems and coronas on the slats of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
"This population of diademed sifakas is already in bad shape," Bonadonna said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
The bar-keeper brought two glasses crowned with mint and diademed with broken ice.
From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte
They will fight admirably to the last; but should they be defeated, it is yet possible that the revolution may bring compensations to humanity, which will make good the overthrow of their "diademed towers."
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
On her head she wore a crown diademed with finest jewels, and round about her were women like moons, seated upon chairs and clad in the most sumptuous clothing of all colours.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
I will confront the greatest of my diademed ancestors, and in his tomb.
From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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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