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- noun Plural form of
coronal .
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Examples
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The Coronal – also called Valentine – is due to appear shortly in Pidruid on the Grand Processional all coronals take shortly after ascending to power.
Reading Challenge #9 – Lord Valentine’s Castle, Robert Silverberg « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009
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The brook, restrained at the ultimate boundary of the grounds by a natural dam-dike or ledge of rocks, seemed, even in its present swollen state, scarcely to glide along: and the pale willow-trees, dropping their long branches into the stream, gathered around them little coronals of the foam that floated down from the more rapid stream above.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Whose swords and coronals gleam around the throne,
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In that country women that be unmarried, they have tokens on their heads like coronals to be known for unmarried.
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The wealth of the East in all its gorgeousness was poured out upon these dignified and solemn infants, who wore coronals of gold and diamonds, stuffs of cloth of gold brocade, and satin sewn with pearls, and whose cloth-of-gold shoes flashed with diamonds!
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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The Brazilian traveller will be surprised to find the coronals of feathers, the Kennitare (Acangátara) of the Tupí -
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Anon, groups of oranges, lemons, coffee-trees, plantains and bananas, are crossed by the tall stems of cocoas, and arched by the broad and drooping coronals of royal palm.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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This glow of splendor surrounded by the dense darkness covered the city, and the dazzling coronals of its lofty towers and domes and spires must have been visible to a great distance across the plains of
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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The vapors that rose from the broad expanse of waters were tinged with a thousand gorgeous hues as they rolled away, dispersed by the morning sun; and the tall yellow pines were crowned with rich golden coronals of light.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens
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Christianity, no one sensitive to the music of words, or the suggestions of poetic imagery, can read the Roman Breviary and Missal without profound admiration for the amazing skill with which the noblest passages of Hebrew poetry are chosen and fitted to the expression of Christian devotion, and the gold of psalmists, prophets, and apostles is welded into coronals for the Lord and His saints.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
madmouth commented on the word coronals
the class of sounds produced around the alveolar ridge, using the corona or blade of the tongue (e.g. n, t, j). in constraint theory, this is the unmarked or default class. that is to say, constraints against 'marked' sound segments often lead to production of coronals (as when Tweety Bird, or kids while their speech is developing, replace 'p' and 'k' with 't'). it has always struck me as bizarre and mysterious that the articulatory organs are, in a broad sense, drawing us towards coronality.
June 14, 2009
sionnach commented on the word coronals
Silly madmouth. Coronals are what corn comes from. And high-ranking military officers. And poultry fry cooks.
June 14, 2009