- a variation of scepter.
sceptre
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She was also a severe asthmatic, always followed by a "frightened minion carrying her asthma inhaler, as though it were a crown, or a sceptre of some sort".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
Flowers spelling "Vivienne", "James" and "Son" were in the hearse, and the crown and sceptre awarded to Drag Race winners were carried ahead of the coffin.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
The result: An imposing figure of a seated emperor, draped in a gilded tunic and holding a sceptre and orb, gazing out over his Rome from a side garden of the Capitoline Museums.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Mary Queen of Scots was the first to be crowned using the new crown and sceptre together, in 1543.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
Hanging at his side, the sceptre of Diocletian glowed angry purple, like a radioactive bruise.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Even without Lithgow’s Churchill, The Crown looks set to ruffle feathers across this sceptred isle.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2016
They like it that way on the sceptred isle, defined by rising chalky cliffs, so green and apart.
From US News ● Jun. 27, 2016
And in Richard II, Shakespeare uses the area as the place where John of Gaunt makes his famous "sceptred isle" speech.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2014
The idea which emerged was a potted history of this sceptred isle, starting with the Thames which a deftly edited film followed from its source to Big Ben.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2012
But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
