Sentence examples for diadem from inspiring English sources

He adopted as his name glyph (personal insignia) a knotted diadem, the symbol of authority itself.

The tiara, the papal diadem or crown apostolic, emerged in the early medieval period; and the mitre (the liturgical headdress of bishops and abbots), the most conspicuous of the episcopal insignia, began as a mark of favour accorded to certain bishops by the supreme pontiff at a somewhat later date.

The ceremony took place not in Rome but in the imperial chapel at Aachen; the pope was not present; the constitutive act was the acclamation of the gathered Frankish nobility; and Louis either received the diadem from his father or took it with his own hands from the altar.

One dagger has a crescent-shaped handle and a blade of iron a metal known to have had many times the value of gold at this time and among the ornaments there is a fine gold-filigree (openwork made with metal wire) diadem.

To show his complete independence he was the first of the Parthian sovereigns to do so he began issuing coins bearing his likeness wearing a royal diadem like the Seleucid kings.

In 1796 Āghā Muḥammad Khan assumed the imperial diadem, and later in the same year he took Mashhad.

Sotheby's begins with an offering of antiquities on June 8, led by a beautiful Roman Imperial marble head of Diadumenos (the "diadem-wearer"), an idealized male athlete, once owned by the actor Anthony Quinn.

Divine statues also may be adorned with jewels, diadems, tiaras, and garments consisting of gold-worked covers, a practice still observed in southern India, or with ceremonial apparel, a Christian practice observed in the veneration of saints, particularly in the Czech Republic (Prague, Polandd, and France (Brittany).

Highest in the celestial hierarchy are the 12 light diadems of the Father of Greatness and the Twelve Aeons, the "firstborn"—angelic figures that are divided into groups of threes, surrounding the Supreme Being in the four quarters of the heavens.

Milne-Edwards's sifaka is black or brown, generally with a white patch on the back and flanks, whereas the diademed sifaka, or simpoon, has a beautiful coat of white, which becomes silvery on the back, light gold on the hindquarters, and black on the crown and nape.

The larger diademed sifaka (P. diadema), silky sifaka (P. candidus), and Milne-Edwards's sifaka (P. edwardsi) live in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar.