Word: circlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Elaine Barrie Barrymore, currently suing for divorce, made her stage debut in The Return of Hannibal. At the same time her mother, Mrs. Louis Jacobs, revealed that the wedding ring Actor John Barrymore had given Elaine was a circlet woven from tiny strands of gold: "Flexible-like Elaine's marriage...
...fantastic purchase price of £15,000 (52,000 gold dollars at last week's rate of exchange), the dealer accounted for by saying that "the coronet was set with valuable gems." A proper ducal coronet consists of a circlet of gold from which rise eight strawberry leaves also of gold. Peers below the rank of duke have to wear more ornate coronets. These may not be made of gold, must be made of silver gilded to look like gold. They must also be embellished with silver balls which the English call "pearls," but never with real pearls or gems...
...gentlemen supported the trailing bridal veil of antique Brussels lace, priceless and some 20 feet long. Instead of a wreath, Princess Isabelle wore a bridal circlet of diamonds. Carrying a missal instead of a bouquet, and leaning on the arm of her father Prince Pierre, she led the royal procession in which walked 54 princes and princesses...
Placing the 3-lb. golden circlet of sapphires, rubies and diamonds upon the Emperor's woolly head, he continued, "Gird the sword upon thy loins, yet rule in Peace! May the Lord God, supreme ruler of men, bless and glorify thy reign, and may He ever keep thee and thy consort in His bosom...