copple-crown
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
copple-crown (plural copple-crowns)
- A crested or high-topped crown, head or peak.
- 1638, Thomas Randolph, Amyntas:
- Like the copple-crown the lapwing has.
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyric Of The Dean:
- the flowery downs,
With spiral tops and copple crowns
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References[edit]
- “copple-crown”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.