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Definition of Tiara
1. Noun. A jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
Definition of Tiara
1. n. A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.
Definition of Tiara
1. Noun. The papal crown. ¹
2. Noun. An ornamental coronet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tiara
1. a jeweled headpiece worn by women [n -S] : TIARAED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiara
Literary usage of Tiara
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Up into the twelfth century the tiara was not only seldom represented in art ...
This is especially true of the representations of the tiara on the coins of ..."
2. A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry by John Woodward (1894)
"The tiara is a cap, or mitre, of thin metal, or cloth of gold and silver. ...
The second tiara dates from the pontificate of Pope GREGORY XVI. ..."
3. The Hindered Hand: Or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Sutton E[lbert] Griggs (1905)
"tiara Mystifies Us. IAEA WAS sitting -on the ... tiara missed Eunice, but there
was a countervailing joy in her soul. Eunice gone, her period of exile was ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"tiara (Gr.), n species of high hat anciently worn by many eastern nations.
Those of kings and priests were encircled by a sort of crown, whence the term ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"tiara ; originally, and with Herodotus, the cap of the Persian kings. The tiara
of the pope is a high cap, surrounded by three crowns rising one above the ..."
6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"tiara ; originally, and with Herodotus, the cap of the Persian kings. The tiara
of the pope is a high cap, surrounded by three crowns rising one above the ..."
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