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  • noun Plural form of coronet.

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Examples

  • These stones at Stonehenge, as Mr. Camden describes them, and in which others agree, were very large, though not so large — the upright stones twenty-four feet high, seven feet broad, sixteen feet round, and weigh twelve tons each; and the cross-stones on the top, which he calls coronets, were six or seven tons.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • These stones at Stonehenge, as Mr. Camden describes them, and in which others agree, were very large, though not so large — the upright stones twenty-four feet high, seven feet broad, sixteen feet round, and weigh twelve tons each; and the cross-stones on the top, which he calls coronets, were six or seven tons.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • These stones at Stonehenge, as Mr. Camden describes them, and in which others agree, were very large, though not so large — the upright stones twenty-four feet high, seven feet broad, sixteen feet round, and weigh twelve tons each; and the cross-stones on the top, which he calls coronets, were six or seven tons.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • These stones at Stonehenge, as Mr. Camden describes them, and in which others agree, were very large, though not so large -- the upright stones twenty-four feet high, seven feet broad, sixteen feet round, and weigh twelve tons each; and the cross-stones on the top, which he calls coronets, were six or seven tons.

    From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" Daniel Defoe 1696

  • How British aristocrats first gained their coronets is another one.

    Comment 2009

  • Glancing around, he saw the inner wall decorated with a colorful assortment of primitive crafts: carved figures and masks, cloaks and capes, scarves and coronets.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Glancing around, he saw the inner wall decorated with a colorful assortment of primitive crafts: carved figures and masks, cloaks and capes, scarves and coronets.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Glancing around, he saw the inner wall decorated with a colorful assortment of primitive crafts: carved figures and masks, cloaks and capes, scarves and coronets.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Glancing around, he saw the inner wall decorated with a colorful assortment of primitive crafts: carved figures and masks, cloaks and capes, scarves and coronets.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Glancing around, he saw the inner wall decorated with a colorful assortment of primitive crafts: carved figures and masks, cloaks and capes, scarves and coronets.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

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