diademe

plural diademes

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of diadem.

   I am his firſt borne ſonne, that vvas the laſt / That vvare the Imperiall Diademe of Rome, […]

   c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature A3, recto

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   When he ſhould put on his apparel again, the yong gentlemen that plaied with him, found a man ſet in his chaier of eſtate, hauing the kings diademe on his head, & his gowne on his back, & ſaid neuer a word.

   1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Alexander the great”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 761

   Eſpecially in this, that he taketh the Diademe for a Royall crowne of pure gold, ſet with precious ſtones. This ignorant block (ſaith he) either hath forgotten or neuer knew that the Diademe is a wreathe of cloath or of ſilke; […]

   1625, P[hilippus] Camerarius, translated by I. Molle, The Living Librarie, or Meditations and Observations Historical, Natural, Moral, Political, and Poetical., 2nd edition, London: […] Adam Islip, and are to be sould by I. Partridge, page 221