chelengk

• a naval crown, OR, the chelengk, or plume, presented to him by the Turk, with the motto, PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT. —  The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
• On the 8th of September, immediately after receiving information of the battle off the Nile, the Grand Signior directed a most superb diamond aigrette -- called, by the Turks, a chelengk, or plume of triumph -- taken from one of the imperial turbans, to be sent for our victorious admiral, with a rich pelisse of the choicest sable fur; and a purse of two thousand sequins, in cash, to be distributed among the wounded British seamen. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
• In this letter, it it called, a chelengk, or plume of triumph: such as has been, on every famous and memorable success of the Ottoman arms, conferred on victorious Mussulmen, Seraskiers -- "never, before, I believe," says the imperial writer, "on any disbeliever -- as the _ne plus ultra_ of personal honour, separate from official dignity. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
• "On a naval crown, or; the chelengk, or plume of triumph, presented to him by the Grand Signior, as a mark of his high esteem, and of his sense of the gallant conduct of the said Horatio Baron Nelson in the said glorious and decisive victory; with the motto -- _Palmam qui meruit ferat_:" and, to his supporters, being a sailor on the dexter, and a lion on the sinister, the honourable augmentation following; viz. "In the hand of the sailor, a palm branch, and another in the paw of the lion, both proper, with the addition of a tri-coloured flag and staff in the mouth of the latter;" which augmentations to the supporters are to be borne by the said Horatio —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1

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