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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 26, 2008diadem \DY-uh-dem\, noun: 1. A crown. On the far side of the cloister in the long, chapel-like room called the Treasure, she sits on her throne -- a small stiff gold figure robed in gold and covered with jewels and crowned with a golden diadem. The sky above is blue; the many clouds -- sun-drenched, gilded, lively -- have moved down, settled like a great diadem on the broad ring of the encircling mountains. Dead and gone is the British Raj in India, that most glittering jewel in the diadem of Queen Victoria. Diadem derives from Greek diadema, "a band," from diadein, "to bind around," from dia, "through, across" + dein, "to bind." | |||||||||
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