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
It does not have any crown or royal symbols - unlike many of the predecessors, where kings' stamps often include an image of a crown and queens are depicted wearing a crown or diadem.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
The initial notes bore a portrait of the queen wearing the family’s diamond diadem.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
Generations of students had failed to find the diadem; that suggested that it was not in Ravenclaw Tower—but if not there, where?
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
The only other Argaric silver diadems were found with women.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
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
And the knowing eyes were diademed with a specific message.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
On her head she wore a crown diademed with finest jewels, and round about her were women like moons, seated upon chairs and clad in the most sumptuous clothing of all colours.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
I will confront the greatest of my diademed ancestors, and in his tomb.
From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
North and south, the horizon was a chaotic sky land of pinnacles, spired and minareted, steepled and turreted and domed, each diademed with its green and argent of eternal ice and snow.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
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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