tiara

name

1. A female given name from English from the noun tiara

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára), of unknown ultimate origin.

1. The three-tiered papal crown.
2. An ornamental coronet.

   “I had scarcely taken my accustomed low seat at her side, when, opening a casket which stood on the table near her, she took out a diamond tiara, and, placing it in my hair, pointed to the glass. 'Ah, my child!' she exclaimed, 'you well become your future crown!' and, without waiting for my reply, she informed me that my father's negotiations for my marriage had been completely successful, and that the King of Poland had demanded my hand.”

   “[T]heir tiaræ are like those of the magi; […]”

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára), of unknown ultimate origin.

1. To adorn as a tiara.

   “Brilliants tiaraed her head.”

   “Small platters of various provender succeed each other rapidly; fish, pastry, creams, then perhaps stews again of goose, turkey, peacock, vegetables, and then sweets again, without any regard to the programmes recommended by the English or French professors of the divine art. A pyramid of pilauf literally crowns, or rather tiaras the feast.”

2. To adorn with a tiara.

   “He tiaraed her head.”

   “Old Dandolo! and where are they who learned / To feel the fire with which thy bosom burned, / The sons, who caught from thee the spark divine, / And made their country worthy to be thine; / Laid conquered regions at her feet, and all / Tiaraed her with nations; that her pall / Was one vast universe of gorgeous things; / Her very vassals, arbiters of kings.”