tiara
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United States//tiˈɑɹə//
- United States//tiˈæɹə//
- //tiˈɑːɹə//
- //taɪˈɛəɹə//
The three-tiered papal crown.
noun
- 1
The three-tiered papal crown.
- 2
An ornamental coronet.
[T]heir tiaræ are like those of the magi; […]
The Bactrians wore tiaræ like the Persians, with bamboo bows, and short javelins.
For the latter bears a pair of winged bulls with tiaræ and feathered necks, after the so much admired Assyrian prototype; […]
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.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára), of unknown ultimate origin.
verb
- 1
rareTo adorn as a tiara.
Brilliants tiaraed her head.
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.
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 […]
- 2
rareTo adorn with a tiara.
He tiaraed her head.
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.
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.
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.
Forms
- plural
- tiaras, tiarae, tiaræ
- past tense
- tiaraed
- past participle
- tiaraed
- present participle
- tiaraing
- third person singular
- tiaras