Meaning of Coronal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A crown or coronet.
2. A wreath or garland of flowers.
3. The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
4. A consonant produced with the tip or blade of the tongue.

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Examples

“Therfore aryse and dresse the thow gloton / For this day shall thou dye of my hand / Thenne the gloton anone starte vp and tooke a grete clubbe in his hand / and smote at the kynge that his coronal fylle to the erthe”

“That shall embellish more your beautie bright, / And crowne your heades with heavenly coronall, / Such as the Angels weare before Gods tribunall!”

“The bowl is in the Renaissance style, with winged figures supporting coronals and wreaths of flowers, and on the edge is an emblematic figure pouring out water.”

“Where, darker for the sky's unclouded dome, The waves took sudden coronals of foam”

“Oxycephaly results from the fusion of both coronal sutures and of the sagittal suture; trigonocephaly from a fusion of both coronals; […]”

“This structurally accounts for a number of phenomena that treat coronals asymetrically with respect to other places of articulation.”

“By Mr. Neville's kindness an accurate drawing of this relic has been obtained, and, considering the circumstances of its discovery, it has been conjectured that it may have been the coronal of a tilting lance.”

“[…] the proper stroke was to knock off the salade, or bear it off in triumph on the three-pronged coronal of the lance.”

“The tilting lance differed from a war lance in that it possessed a coronal instead of a point. The coronal consisted of[…]”

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