crownet

English

Etymology

From Middle English crovnette, crownet, from Middle French [Term?].

Noun

crownet (plural crownets)

1. (obsolete) A coronet, small crown.
   • 1558, Thomas Phaer (translator), The Seven First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil converted into English Meter, Book 5,

     Himself with garland freshe, and crownet greene of oliue bandes,

     Aduancing stood in ship.

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene prologue]:

     […] sixty and nine, that wore
     Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay
     Put forth toward Phrygia;

   • 1783, Charles Macklin, The True-Born Irishman, Dublin, Act II, p. 29,^[1]

     Why, sir, I am affronted for want of a title: a parcel of upstarts, with their crownets upon their coaches, their chairs, their spoons, their handkerchiefs—nay, on the very knockers of their doors—creatures that were below me but t’other day, are now truly my superiors, and have the precedency, and are set above me at table.

   • 1949, Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1968, Act One, p. 26,^[2]

     So the queen sung,

     Crumbling her crownet into clods of dung.

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