crownet the diminutive of crown, a coronet:
“Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv. 12.
27
; (
“last purpose, probably from finis coronat opus,”
JOHNSON)
,
“crownets,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, Prologue,
6
; ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, v. 2.
91.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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