diadem
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Also stolen was a diadem that once belonged to the Empress Eugenie, which has nearly 2,000 diamonds; and a necklace that once belonged to Marie-Amelie, the last queen of France.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
The greenstone ornaments are typical of the Late Classic period and the mask and diadem are known to be exclusive to Maya royalty.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024
If you're looking at it and wondering why it seems familiar, it might be because that diadem was seen on stamps from the late Queen's reign.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Museum officials tried to hide the diadem and other objects in a secret basement.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
So Voldemort had managed to wheedle the location of the lost diadem out of the Gray Lady.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
According to the authorities, eight items were taken including diadems, necklaces, ear-rings and brooches.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
However huge their historical and cultural value, crowns and diadems can easily be broken apart and sold in bits.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Some were jewel-encrusted diadems worn by Angkor royalty as far back as the 9th century.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
As for the people, they will get help wherever they can; prayers and spells and amulets combine ankhs, crosses, old deities, seven-point diadems, the archangel Gabriel.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2015
Cloaks of turkey feathers fluttered from their shoulders; huge feather diadems exploded gaudily round their heads.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"This population of diademed sifakas is already in bad shape," Bonadonna said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
Perhaps if the diademed tyrants had treated it with indifference, the effects would have been otherwise.
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by N. (Nathaniel) Ames
Hung with millions of electric bulbs, crowned and diademed, and laced with jewels of white flame, she signaled to them out of the mystery and immensity of the night.
From The Combined Maze by May Sinclair
Plenipotent, majestic night settled on the throne of the supernal cosmos, diademed with a million twinkling jewels to dazzle his mundane subjects.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
The bar-keeper brought two glasses crowned with mint and diademed with broken ice.
From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte
When home, he dwells in a spacious, squatty, fenced-in, brownstone mansion, diademing St. Paul's exclusive Crocus Hill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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