单词 | tiara |
释义 | tiaran. 1. The raised head-dress or high peaked cap worn by the Persians and some other eastern peoples, varying in shape according to the rank of the wearer; a kind of turban. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > peaked > types of tiar1513 tiara1555 jockey-cap1748 Mary Queen of Scots cap1813 baseball cap1865 baseball hat1867 cheese-cutter1870 fore and aft1888 staff cap1902 Mao cap1967 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. v. 148 The rounde cappe, whiche thei cal Tiara..passed from them [Medes] to the Persians. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tiara, a high sharp pointed Cap, worn by Sovereign Princes, and those of the Blood Royal, among the Persians. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 239 The Persians wore no helmets, but only their common caps, which they call'd tiara's. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxiii. 300 The upright tiara, the privileged head-dress of the Persian kings. 2. a. A high ovate-cylindrical or dome-shaped diadem worn by the pope, surmounted by the orb and cross of sovereignty, and encircled with three crowns symbolic of triple dignity, and usually richly wrought with jewels; often called the triple tiara or triple crown. Hence transferred the position or dignity of pope, the papacy. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > tiara triple crown1555 tiar1616 tiaraa1660 triple hat1841 1616 R. Sheldon Suruey Miracles Church of Rome 165 His triple Tiare and Crowne.] a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 298 We saw divers of the Popes Pantofles..Also his Tyara or Triple Crown. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician II. 316 This Tiara, or Triple-Crown, is the Touch-stone on which other Crowns are tried. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. iii. v. 173 When Pope Clement VII came to the tiara, he revoked all grants of this nature. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. ix. 107 The figure of a pope, arrayed in his pontifical robes, and crowned with the tiara. b. Heraldry. A bearing supposed to represent the Pope's tiara; also called triple crown. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [noun] > crowns and coronets triple crown1555 coronet1709 radiate crown1752 tiara1780 Venice crownc1828 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Tiara, or Triple Crown, with clouds in base issuing rays, being part of the arms of the Drapers' Company. 1894 Parker's Gloss. Her. Tiara, the pope's triple crown occurs in the arms of one Company. 3. The head-dress of the Jewish High Priest. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > coif mitrea1382 coif1382 turban1615 cidaris1797 tiara1868 1868 W. B. Marriott Vestiarium Christianum 80 The Tiara..was at once a covering and an ornament to the head of the High Priest. 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lviii. 464 Was not the tiara worn by a fierce Sadducee? 1890 P. H. Hunter After Exile xiii. 250 The tiara might be worn with safety, while the crown was impossible. 4. a. An ornamental frontal, coronet, or headband.In modern use, a richly jewelled ornament worn by ladies in the hair, above the forehead. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [noun] > coronet or circlet mindOE crownOE diademc1290 coronalc1330 circlea1340 garland?a1366 coronaclea1400 crowneta1425 crownalc1443 chapleta1464 circlet1481 cronet1519 cronicle1569 graundcie1592 anadem1598 coronet1599 carcanet1602 frontlet1610 circuita1616 rosary1651 tiar1660 tiara1718 ferronière1831 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. Rule 9 §29 The spirit of humility and wisedome..ought to be the investiture of a Christians heart and the tiar of his head. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 625 Of beaming sunnie Raies, a golden tiar Circl'd his [sc. an angel's] Head. View more context for this quotation] 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 450 A bright tiara, round her forehead tied. 1761 H. Walpole Let. 9 Sept. in Corr. (1974) XXXVIII. 116 Her tiara of diamonds was very pretty. 1895 H. R. Haggard Heart of World xxi On her head was set a tiara of perfect pearls. b. figurative. (Cf. crown, diadem.) ΚΠ 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV ii. 4 She [sc. Venice] looks a sea Cybele..with her tiara of proud towers. 1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. (1873) i. iv. 35 The tiara of the rainbow. 1880 J. Legge Mem. iv. 45 Truth and love are the double tiara that should rest on his brow. 5. Zoology. A mitre-shell, or a genus of mitre-shells. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Mitridae > genus Tiara tiara1835 1835 Swainson Elem. Mod. Conchol. 14 Tiara. Sw. Mouth narrowed at the base; with an internal upper groove. 1840 W. Swainson Treat. Malacol. i. iv. 112 The real type of the Mitrinæ is our genus Tiara, and not that of Mitra, as formerly supposed. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 420/2 Tiara,..Swainson's name for a genus of ‘Mitrinæ’..which are termed ‘Mitres’ by collectors. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as tiara-crowned, tiara-like, tiara-shaped adjs.; tiara night n. a night on which tiaras (sense 4) are worn at the opera. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > opera operatics1845 tiara night1900 1792 R. Cumberland Calvary (1803) II. 123 Round his brows A cypress wreath tiara-like he wore. 1868 J. A. Wylie Road to Rome v. 45 Popery—from its tiara-crowned chief to its sandal-shod friars. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 3 June 2/1 The guns sat each in its own little tiara-shaped entrenchment. 1900 Daily Express 28 June 1/1 The Opera-house presented a brilliant spectacle last night, the ladies in the audience..having made it a ‘tiara’ night in expectation of the Khedive's presence. Derivatives tiˈara v. (transitive) to adorn with or as with a tiara. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [verb (transitive)] > adorn with tiara tiara1837 tiar1882 1837 New Monthly Mag. 51 312 A pyramid of pilauf literally crowns, or rather tiaras the feast. tiˈaraed adj. /-əd/ (also tiˈara'd) adorned with a tiara. ΚΠ 1822 H. H. Milman Martyr of Antioch 128 The high tiara'd Magian. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 137 All the Tiaraed and Diademed of the world. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1555 |
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