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CORONET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Margin between the skin of the pastern and the horn of the hoof
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coronet" is a kind of...):
animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)
Holonyms ("coronet" is a part of...):
fetter bone; pastern (the part between the fetlock and the hoof)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small crown; usually indicates a high rank but below that of sovereign
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("coronet" is a kind of...):
crown; diadem (an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty)
Context examples:
Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and who may have heard uncle’s remarks about the coronet.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the light, holding the coronet in his hands.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the sum which I have asked.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I answered that it had ceased to be a private matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was national property.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How dare you touch that coronet?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet in his hands.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Was the remainder of the coronet at all injured?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir George Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the coronet, and his opponent at the other.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture became a certainty.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
