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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.
1861, , The Martyr-Crisis: A Poem, Chicago, Ill.: D. B. Cooke & Co., stanza XLVI, page 40:
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?
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 […]
Averting his eyes he glanced hastily at his cards; a jeweled tracery of sweat tiaraed his forhead.
1970 January 21, Elaine Locke, “To A Lost Pet”, in Animals, volume 103, number 4, published April 1970, page 7:
Though sunlight still danced on the head of day, / And scarlet and gold tiaraed her hair— / A sudden veil fell eclipsing all gray, / Loss of my Truest Friend ruptured the air!
As Excelsior was near the center of the Trek, the great concourse of ships tiaraed the salon’s horizon line, a triumphant jeweled city of coruscating light.
1976, Dodge Temple Fielding, Fielding’s Selected Favorites: Hotels & Inns, Europe 1976, New York, N.Y.: Fielding Publications, →ISBN, page 245:
Wood-and-marble lobby tiara-ed by a mezzanine lounge; […]
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.
1954 September 10, Kurt Gruenwald, “Around The Town”, in The Coast Star, volume LXX, number 30, Manasquan, N.J., page two:
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.
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:
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.
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:
I see how this Semiramis, imitating a man, has tiaraed her head and cleverly captivates the eyes of those standing about; […]
“tiara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
“tiara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
tiara in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
tiara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“tiara”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
“tiara”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
tiara in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
“tiara”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin