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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.
1842, Joseph Strutt, J R Planché, “ 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 Bohn,, page lxiv:
heir tiaræ are like those of the magi; […]
1848, [James Talboys Wheeler], An Analysis and Summary of Herodotus., Oxford, Oxon: J. L. Wheeler, J. Abrams, C. Richards, J. Thornton., page 165:
The Bactrians wore tiaræ like the Persians, with bamboo bows, and short javelins.
1892, Morton W 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:
For the latter bears a pair of winged bulls with tiaræ and feathered necks, after the so much admired Assyrian prototype; […]
1949, Armando Schiavo, editor, Michelangelo Architetto: Michaelangelo as an Architect, Rome: La Libreria dello Stato:
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.
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:
During the Bronze Age in the Near East kings and gods often wore tiarae and helmets provided with horns […]
The images of these divinities, including that of Ishtar, were richly dressed and decorated with tiarae (for references see Romano 1988, 133). […] A comparison may also be made with the terracotta statuettes of the daedalic style from Gortyn in Crete, where richly decorated garments as well as high tiarae are worn by female figures (e.g. Rizza and Scrinari 1968, pls XV: 91, XVII: 101).
2021, Nadežda Gavrilović Vitas, “The Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in the Central Balkans”, in Ex Asia et Syria: Oriental Religions in the Roman Central Balkans (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology; 78), Oxford, Oxon: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, section I (Asia Minor Religions and Cults), footnote 1025, page 108, column 2:
In the centre of the front side, two male standing figures are shown, dressed in tunicae with long sleeves, wearing tiarae and holding two double headed axes and stylized palm branches in their hands.
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.
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 Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
“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
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