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- Dictionarycoronet/ˈkɒrənɪt/
noun
- 1. a small or relatively simple crown, especially as worn by lesser royalty and peers or peeresses.
- 2. a ring of bone at the base of a deer's antler.
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In British heraldry, a coronet is any crown whose bearer is less than sovereign or royal in rank, irrespective of the crown's appearance. In other languages, this distinction is not made, and usually the same word for crown is used irrespective of rank (,,,, etc.) In this use, the English coronet is a purely technical term for all heraldic images of crowns not used by a sovereign, and implies noth... Wikipedia