LekhoriLekhoriAn ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
The Apollon wing of the Louvre has a set of historic crowns, diadems and sovereign jewellery.
A crown.
And vvhen the princely Perſean Diadem, / Shall ouervveigh his vvearie vvitleſſe head, / And fall like mellovved fruit, vvith ſhakes of death, / In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain / Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:
Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown.
To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
The star of her destiny is the morning star of the new-born century. O’er the Golden Gate it glitters, diademming this youthful Queen of the Pacific in her robes of freedom gorgeously inlaid with gold.
From Middle English diademe, dyademe, from Old French diademe, from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma, “band, especially worn around a tiara”), from διαδέω (diadéō, “bind around”).
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