coronet

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Visus, I know 'tis yours; and yet methinks, Auditus, you should have some challenge to it; But that your title, Tactus, is so good, Gustus, I would swear the coronet were yours: What, will you all go brawl about a trifle?

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  1. noun A small crown worn by princes and princesses and by other nobles below the rank of sovereign.
  2. noun A chaplet or headband decorated with gold or jewels.
  3. noun The upper margin of a horse's hoof.

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  • His figure will look well enough in shirt and trousers, and the coronet is an excellent prop. —  Watson's Choice - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 28 - 1955
  • If the discharge of pus from the coronet is the first evidence of the disease, the offending nail must be found and removed, the horn pared out, and a weak solution of carbolic acid or compound cresol injected at the coronet until the fistulous tract has healed CONTRACTED HEELS, OR HOOFBOUND Contracted heels, or hoofbound, is a common disease among horses kept on hard floor in dry stables, and in such as are subject to much saddle work. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • In either case she is “Right Honourable”; is styled “My Lady,” and her coronet is the same as that of a Baron Illustration: No. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Countess_, the wife of an Earl: she is “Right Honourable,” and styled “My Lady”: her coronet is the same as that of an Earl Counter. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • To the student of armour the alabaster effigy is of special interest as a specimen of the military costume of the fourteenth century; while the coronet is the earliest known example of ducal form--the title of Duke was not introduced into England till rather later. —  Westminster Abbey
 

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  1. Middle English coronette, from Old French, diminutive of corone, crown, from Latin corōna; see crown.

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  1. Also in some senses contracted cornet, cronet; from Old French coronette, coronete, coronnete, couronnete (= Italian coronetta), a little crown, diminutive of corone, a crown: see crown, and cf. corona, coronal, etc.
  2. from coronet, n.
 

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