tiar

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See also: tiår

English

Etymology

Compare French tiare. See tiara.

Noun

tiar (plural tiars)

  1. (poetic, archaic) A tiara.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 625-628:
      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; […]
    • 1816, James Hogg, Mador of the Moor (poem):
      A tiar on his head of curious frame
    • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. , volume I, London: Edward Moxon, , published 1842, →OCLC, part VI, page 25:
      [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.

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