Definitions

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  • adjective Bearing one or more coronets.

Etymologies

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From coronet +‎ -ed.

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Examples

  • -- He kept his pills in a bag, and used to dole them out to his patients; and on doing so to a lady who stepped out of a coronetted carriage to consult him, she declared they made her sick, and she could never take a pill.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 Various

  • The masters of Europe had gone mad in their lust for power; they had called down the vengeance of mankind upon their crowned and coronetted heads.

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • The change was conveyed in a mere hand-pressure, a brief exchange of words, for the aide-de-camp was hastening after a well-known dowager of the old Roman world, whom he helped into a large coronetted brougham which looked as if it had been extracted, for some ceremonial purpose, from a museum of historic vehicles.

    The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

  • Boulogne, where there were coronetted carriages, powdered and plushed footmen, and Tom Thumb grooms waiting on all the grand people of the Tuileries society.

    Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

  • Mrs. Boykin chimed in; and as the footman, entering at that moment, tendered her a large coronetted envelope, she held it up as if in illustration of the indignities to which her countrymen were subjected.

    Madame de Treymes. 1906

  • Lady Casterley lowered the coronetted sheet of paper.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Lady Casterley lowered the coronetted sheet of paper.

    The Patrician John Galsworthy 1900

  • Mrs. Boykin chimed in; and as the footman, entering at that moment, tendered her a large coronetted envelope, she held it up as if in illustration of the indignities to which her countrymen were subjected.

    Madame De Treymes Edith Wharton 1899

  • She was alone in the physical sense, for the two watching Presences were invisible to her, and so, for all she knew, no one saw her measure twenty drops of a colourless fluid from a little blue bottle into the coronetted cup of almost transparent porcelain which had been one of her wedding presents to her husband.

    The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

  • Then came a few more carriages containing very nice people with whom we have here but little concern; and then Miss Brenda, deeply regretting her beautiful Napier, with her father and mother in a very smart Savoy turn-out followed by a coronetted brougham drawn by a splendid pair of black Orloffs.

    The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

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