crownet

plural crownets

1. obsoleteA coronet, small crown.

   So the queen sung, Crumbling her crownet into clods of dung.

   1949, Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, published 1968, act One, page 26

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   Himself with garland freshe, and crownet greene of oliue bandes, Aduancing stood in ship.

   1558, Thomas Phaer, transl., The Seven First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil converted into English Meter, Book 5

   Sometime a louelie boye in Dians shape, With haire that gilds the water as it glides, Crownets of pearle about his naked armes, And in his sportfull hands an Oliue tree, To hide those parts which men delight to see, Shall bathe him in a spring […]

   1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page)

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

   c. 1602 (date written), 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]

   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.

   1783, Charles Macklin, The True-Born Irishman, Dublin, act II, page 29