diadem
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Among them are an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second wife, Empress Marie-Louise, and a diadem that once belonged to the Empress Eugenie, which is dotted with nearly 2,000 diamonds.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2025
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
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
Propped up against the headboard, her hairnet cinched on her forehead like a diadem, Desdemona looked as ancient and indomitable as the elderly Queen Victoria.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
However huge their historical and cultural value, crowns and diadems can easily be broken apart and sold in bits.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
According to the authorities, eight items were taken including diadems, necklaces, ear-rings and brooches.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
In ancient Etruscan civilization, antefixes were lively terra-cotta objects that often depicted female figures crowned by diadems, a jeweled crown or headband.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
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
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
This pale crescent was “the likeness of a kingly crown;” what it diademed was “the shape which shape had none.”
From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend
The bar-keeper brought two glasses crowned with mint and diademed with broken ice.
From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte
The main feature of this design is a circular medallion bearing a diademed profile portrait of Queen Victoria to right, on a horizontally lined ground.
From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton Armstrong Howes
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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