tiar

See also: tiår

English

Etymology

Compare French tiare. See tiara.

Noun

tiar (plural tiars)

  1. (poetic, archaic) A tiara.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 625-628:
      Of beaming sunny rays, a golden tiar / Circled his head, nor less his locks behind / Illustrious on his shoulders, fledge with wings, / Lay waving round; […]
    • 1830 June​, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part VI, page 25:
      [E]astern flowers large, / Some dropping low their crimson bells / Half-closed, and others studded wide / With disks and tiars, fed the time / With odour in the golden prime / Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tiar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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