crownet

See crown, coronet.

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.

   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,

     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 […]

   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, 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,

     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,

     So the queen sung,

     Crumbling her crownet into clods of dung.

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