tiar

plural tiars

1. archaicpoeticA tiara.

   A tiar on his head of curious frame

   1816, James Hogg, Mador of the Moor (poem)

   2 more examples

   Of beaming sunny rays, a golden tiar / Circled his head, nor less his locks behind / Illustrious on his shoulders, fledge with wings, / Lay waving round; […]

   1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 625-628

   [E]astern flowers large, / Some dropping low their crimson bells / Half-closed, and others studded wide / With disks and tiars, fed the time / With odour in the golden prime / Of good Haroun Alraschid.

   1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part VI, page 25