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- noun Plural form of
crowne .
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Examples
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They haue flat and small noses, litle eyes and eye liddes standing streight vpright, they are shauen on the crownes like priests.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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It came to passe, that a young Sicillian wench (very beautifull, but at commaund of whosoever would, and for small hire) pass then by, and (without his percieving) seeing such store of gold in his purse; presently she said to her selfe: why should not all those crownes be mine, when the foole that owes them, can keepe them no closer?
The Decameron 2004
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Barons, carying wreathes and litle crownes vpon their heads, and giuing attendance vpon their lord, and euery one of them weareth a garment of gold and precious stones, which is woorth ten thousand Florens.
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The clerkes han rounde crounes, and the lewed men han crownes alle square: and thei holden
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As surpluis and rochet, and suche linnen garmentes: shauen crownes, tourninges at the altare, our masse solempnities, our organes, our knielinges, crouchinges, praiers, and other of that kinde.
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The clerkes han rounde crounes, and the lewed men han crownes alle square: and thei holden
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He that hath that to farme, with a faire and profitable garden thereto belonging, paieth euery yeere to saint Marke, fifteene hundred crownes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Ambassadour of the French king heretofore enioyed the like: but of late yeeres by meanes of displeasure conceiued by Mahumet then Viceroy, it was reduced to sixe crownes the day, beside the prouision of his Esquire of his stable.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In which their returne to England the Spaniards that they brought with them offered fiue hundred crownes to be set on shore in any place: which, seeing the Maister would not doe, they were content to be ruled by him and his companie, and craued mercie at their hands.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also he had nineteene and a halfe pikes of cloth, which cost in London twenty shillings the pike, and was worth 9 or 10 crownes the pike, and he payed for the same twelue larines a pike.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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