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- adjective Bearing one or more
coronets .
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Examples
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-- He kept his pills in a bag, and used to dole them out to his patients; and on doing so to a lady who stepped out of a coronetted carriage to consult him, she declared they made her sick, and she could never take a pill.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 Various
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The masters of Europe had gone mad in their lust for power; they had called down the vengeance of mankind upon their crowned and coronetted heads.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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The change was conveyed in a mere hand-pressure, a brief exchange of words, for the aide-de-camp was hastening after a well-known dowager of the old Roman world, whom he helped into a large coronetted brougham which looked as if it had been extracted, for some ceremonial purpose, from a museum of historic vehicles.
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Boulogne, where there were coronetted carriages, powdered and plushed footmen, and Tom Thumb grooms waiting on all the grand people of the Tuileries society.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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Mrs. Boykin chimed in; and as the footman, entering at that moment, tendered her a large coronetted envelope, she held it up as if in illustration of the indignities to which her countrymen were subjected.
Madame de Treymes. 1906
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Lady Casterley lowered the coronetted sheet of paper.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Lady Casterley lowered the coronetted sheet of paper.
The Patrician John Galsworthy 1900
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Mrs. Boykin chimed in; and as the footman, entering at that moment, tendered her a large coronetted envelope, she held it up as if in illustration of the indignities to which her countrymen were subjected.
Madame De Treymes Edith Wharton 1899
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She was alone in the physical sense, for the two watching Presences were invisible to her, and so, for all she knew, no one saw her measure twenty drops of a colourless fluid from a little blue bottle into the coronetted cup of almost transparent porcelain which had been one of her wedding presents to her husband.
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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Then came a few more carriages containing very nice people with whom we have here but little concern; and then Miss Brenda, deeply regretting her beautiful Napier, with her father and mother in a very smart Savoy turn-out followed by a coronetted brougham drawn by a splendid pair of black Orloffs.
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881
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