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diadem

[dahy-uh-dem] / ˈdaɪ əˌdɛm /


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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

Almost 1 meter in diameter, the vessel entombed a woman in her late 20s with a shining silver diadem on her forehead.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023

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

But Russian forces managed to find the room and lifted the diadem along with 1,700 other artifacts.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022

Nicasia’s hair is the blue-green of the ocean, crowned with a diadem of pearls.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

However huge their historical and cultural value, crowns and diadems can easily be broken apart and sold in bits.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

According to the authorities, eight items were taken including diadems, necklaces, ear-rings and brooches.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

In ancient Etruscan civilization, antefixes were lively terra-cotta objects that often depicted female figures crowned by diadems, a jeweled crown or headband.

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

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

This pale crescent was "the likeness of a Kingly Crown"; what it diademed was "the shape which shape had none."

From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock

And the knowing eyes were diademed with a specific message.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

She thought that crowned only with his curls Crlmthann mac Ae was more nobly diademed than are the masters of the world, and she told him so.

From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

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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