Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small crown.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Poetic A coronet.

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  • noun poetic A coronet.

Etymologies

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crown +‎ -let

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Examples

  • She had changed into a housewifely apron, and her crownlet was gone.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • She had changed into a housewifely apron, and her crownlet was gone.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • She wore a platinum crownlet and a richly embroidered robe, and she was beautiful.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • She wore a platinum crownlet and a richly embroidered robe, and she was beautiful.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • I threw my arms round her neck and waited for her to fondle and play with me like Mistress Stromer with her little Clare; but she gently and sadly shook her head with the golden crownlet, and went up to Cousin

    Margery — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • I threw my arms round her neck and waited for her to fondle and play with me like Mistress Stromer with her little Clare; but she gently and sadly shook her head with the golden crownlet, and went up to Cousin

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • I threw my arms round her neck and waited for her to fondle and play with me like Mistress Stromer with her little Clare; but she gently and sadly shook her head with the golden crownlet, and went up to

    Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • One of them was "disfigured with a great skin, his head hung around with little skins of weasels and other vermin, with a crownlet of feathers on his head, painted as ugly as the devil."

    Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • One of them was "disfigured with a great skin, his head hung around with little skins of weasels and other vermin, with a crownlet of feathers on his head, painted as ugly as the devil."

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The same right of sovereignty, which assigned to Gwenwyn his golden crownlet, gave him a title to the attendance of the foot-bearer, or youth, who lay on the rushes, and whose duty it was to cherish the Prince's feet in his lap or bosom.

    The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801

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  • A little crown. Could be worn on a roytelet.

    July 4, 2008

  • Or maybe by a baronetlet.

    July 4, 2008