diadem

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You see, her diadem is a wreath of them; but the blossoms of it are not fastening enough for her hair, though it is not long yet -- (she is only in reality a Florentine girl of fourteen or fifteen) -- so the little darling knots it under her ears, and then makes herself a necklace of it.

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  1. noun A crown worn as a sign of royalty.
  2. noun Royal power or dignity.
  3. transitive verb To adorn with or as if with a diadem.

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  • Graceful verses from Voltaire were as indispensable an ornament to a crowned head as a diadem, and Catherine answered with compliments that were perhaps more sincere than his verses. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
  • So wealth flows in, and the altar of his idol is hung with cloth of gold, her diadem is alight with gems, costly offerings deck her temple, bending crowds kneel to her divinity. —  An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
  • A joy that has gone from us for ever is a jewel that trembles like a tear on Sorrow's breast, but the brightest stars in her diadem are the memories of hopes that have passed away unrealised and untold. —  A Dozen Ways Of Love
  • And this Libyan Sibyl is the spirit of wild grass and flowers, springing in desolate places You see, her diadem is a wreath of them; but the blossoms of it are not fastening enough for her hair, though it is not long yet--(she is only in reality a Florentine girl of fourteen or fifteen)--so the little darling knots it under her ears, and then makes herself a necklace of it. —  Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
  • In a solemn assembly of the civil and military powers of the empire, the diadem was again unanimously offered to the prćfect Sallust. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
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  1. Middle English diademe, from Old French, from Latin diadēma, from Greek, band, from diadein, to bind around : dia-, dia- + dein, dē-, to bind.

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  1. from Middle English diademe (= Dutch diadeem = G. Danish Swedish diadem), from Old French diademe, French diadème = Spanish Portuguese Italian diadema, from Latin diadēma, from Greek διάδημα a band or fillet, from διαδέειν, bind round, from διά, through, + δεῑν, bind, tie.
  2. from Middle English diademen, in past participle used as adjective, after L. diadematus, diademed; from the noun.
 

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