coronet
/ˈkɒr(ə)nɪt
/noun
1A small or relatively simple crown, especially as worn by lesser royalty and peers or peeresses.Thus equipped, she was crowned, with all the trumpets sounding; and, though our account does not mention it, no doubt all the peers and peeresses put on their coronets at that moment....
- All of this was crowed with a delicate, simple gold coronet.
- Wearing a golden coronet as a Princess of the Blood Royal, she was present at the Coronation of her parents in Westminster Abbey in May, 1937.
Synonyms
crown, diadem, tiara, circlet, chaplet, fillet, garland, wreath
literary coronal
1.1A circular decoration for the head, especially one made of flowers.The ceremony that was about to happen used four props - the robes of the Orianah's office, the flower coronet that the Orianah wore, a red pear, and lemon juice.
2A ring of bone at the base of a deer’s antler.
3The band of tissue on the lowest part of a horse’s pastern, containing the horn-producing cells from which the hoof grows.
Derivatives
coroneted
- He wept where he knelt, against the wall outside the throne room, the room he and Fallen had been coroneted in a thousand years earlier.
- He could only pray his sickness held out as he was coroneted.
- They've declared peace until their new king is coroneted.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French coronete 'small crown or garland', diminutive of corone (see crown).