tiara

plural tiaras · plural rare tiarae · archaic plural rare tiaræ

1. The three-tiered papal crown.
2. An ornamental coronet.

   [T]heir tiaræ are like those of the magi; […]

   1842, Joseph Strutt, J[ames] R[obinson] Planché, “[The Introduction.] The Ancient Habits of the Assyrians, of the Persians, of the Medes, and of Other Asiatic Nations.”, in A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time: […], volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], page lxiv

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   I had scarcely taken my accustomed low seat at her side, when, opening a casket which stood on the table near her, she took out a diamond tiara, and, placing it in my hair, pointed to the glass. 'Ah, my child!' she exclaimed, 'you well become your future crown!' and, without waiting for my reply, she informed me that my father's negotiations for my marriage had been completely successful, and that the King of Poland had demanded my hand.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 200

   The Bactrians wore tiaræ like the Persians, with bamboo bows, and short javelins.

   1848, [James Talboys Wheeler], An Analysis and Summary of Herodotus. […], Oxford, Oxon: J. L. Wheeler, J. Abrams, C. Richards, J. Thornton. […], page 165

   For the latter bears a pair of winged bulls with tiaræ and feathered necks, after the so much admired Assyrian prototype; […]

   1892, Morton W[illiam] Easton, Observations on the Platform at Persepolis (Publications of the University of Pennsylvania: Series in Philology Literature and Archæology; volume II, number 2), Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company; Halle: Max Niemeyer, page 17

   Shells may also be observed in slightly recessed niches, where pediments are replaced with tiarae and flapping infulae, the jambs of which are not flanked with small columns but with colossal keys with candelabra occupying the space.

   1949, Armando Schiavo, editor, Michelangelo Architetto: Michaelangelo as an Architect, Rome: La Libreria dello Stato

   During the Bronze Age in the Near East kings and gods often wore tiarae and helmets provided with horns […]

   1970, Γεώργιος Στυλιανός Κορρές [Geórgios Stylianós Korrés], Τα μετά κεφαλών κριών κράνη: η κεφαλή κριού ως έμβλημα αρχής [Ta metá kefalón krión kráni: i kefalí krioú os émvlima archís], Athens, →OCLC, page 273

present singular third person tiaras · participle present tiaraing · participle past tiaraed · past tiaraed

1. raretransitiveTo adorn as a tiara.

   Brilliants tiaraed her head.

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   Small platters of various provender succeed each other rapidly; fish, pastry, creams, then perhaps stews again of goose, turkey, peacock, vegetables, and then sweets again, without any regard to the programmes recommended by the English or French professors of the divine art. A pyramid of pilauf literally crowns, or rather tiaras the feast.

   1837, Michael J[oseph] Quin, “Life in the East.—No. 1.”, in Theodore Hook, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, part the third, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 312

   Deem not alone the high insignia set / Where crimsoned cross or smouldering stake doth rise; / Hath e’er Humanity’s arch coronet / Tiaraed the bright beings of the skies?

   1861, [Benjamin Franklin Burnham], The Martyr-Crisis: A Poem, Chicago, Ill.: D. B. Cooke & Co., stanza XLVI, page 40

   Like a prophet we beheld it, / With the summit crowned with snow, / All transfigured with the glory / That tiaraed its clear brow, / While it called the earth to heed the morning breaking […]

   1904, The Watchman, page 10

   A parure of brilliants tiaraed her dark head.

   1922, Gilbert Frankau, “Mustard-Pot-Duellist”, in The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume LXIV, London: George Newnews, Ltd., […], section II, page 574

   Averting his eyes he glanced hastily at his cards; a jeweled tracery of sweat tiaraed his forhead.^([sic])

   1950 September 22, Ronald Hurwit, “This Life Below”, in Daily Bruin, volume XXXVIII, number 6, University of California at Los Angeles, page 2

2. raretransitiveTo adorn with a tiara.

   He tiaraed her head.

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   Old Dandolo! and where are they who learned / To feel the fire with which thy bosom burned, / The sons, who caught from thee the spark divine, / And made their country worthy to be thine; / Laid conquered regions at her feet, and all / Tiaraed her with nations; that her pall / Was one vast universe of gorgeous things; / Her very vassals, arbiters of kings.

   1833 August, “Anna Erizzo. A Tale of Venice.”, in The Knickerbocker: or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume II, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Peabody & Co. […], stanza III, page 82

   Comely Betty Clayton, the eighth Miss Lifeguard and the current Miss Manasquan (she was the queen of the Hook and Ladder Ball) tiara-ed her successor, who seems to be following in the former queen’s footsteps.

   1954 September 10, Kurt Gruenwald, “Around The Town”, in The Coast Star, volume LXX, number 30, Manasquan, N.J., page two

   Gentleman-about-town Bruce Gerald Webster, who has jeweled and tiaraed many a Tulsa woman, Friday was officially “crowned” by members of the Junior Opera Guild.

   1980 April 12, Julie Blakely, Lou Ann Ruark, “News of People and Places”, in Tulsa World, 75th year, number 209, Tulsa, Okla., section B, page 3, column 1

   I see how this Semiramis, imitating a man, has tiaraed her head and cleverly captivates the eyes of those standing about; […]

   1983, Robert Coogan, Babylon on the Rhone: A Translation of Letters by Dante, Petrarch, and Catherine of Siena on the Avignon Papacy, Studia Humanitatis, →ISBN, page 74

1. A female given name from English from the noun tiara