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  • noun Plural form of crownet.

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Examples

  • Walk’d crowns and crownets, realms and islands were

    Act V. Scene II. Antony and Cleopatra 1914

  • It was nigh four of the clock ere her Grace came from the Abbey; and she came in a gown of purple velvet, with the crown upon her head, and every noble and noble lady following in cramoisie, and on their heads crownets [the old form of the word coronet] of gold.

    Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • It could not be said of these sweeping reformers and dictators in the republic of letters, that "in their train walked crowns and crownets; that realms and islands, like plates, dropt from their pockets": but they were surrounded, in company with the Muses, by a mixed rabble of idle apprentices and Botany Bay convicts, female vagrants, gipsies, meek daughters in the family of

    Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804

  • Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were

    The Valve 2010

  • Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were

    Antony and Cleopatra 1606

  • Did Mrs. Mudd see a carriage and four drive through the town that morning? it seemed to be a widow-lady's, with crownets and them there things, supporters and four horses: she wondered where it went; for she did not see it put up at the George, so shesupposed it went through: she supposed it was come to some of their great neighbors; they all herded together, and spoilt the neighbourhood.

    The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline Laetitia Matilda Hawkins 1812

  • Walk’d crowns and crownets; realms and islands were

    The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra 2004

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