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pschent

/skent, pskent/US // skɛnt, pskɛnt //

pschent

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the double crown worn by ancient Egyptian kings, symbolic of dominion over Upper and Lower Egypt, which had previously been separate kingdoms.

Examples

  • Combined with one another they form the complete regal head-dress ordinarily called the pschent.

  • From the sole of the feet to the apex of the pschent which the king bears on his head, they are about sixty-five feet in height.

  • What colossal statues, hewn out of one block of stone and towering to the sky, with the pschent crowns of their diadems!

  • The nobles of the court having drawn near to place the pschent upon my head: 'Place the diadem upon his forehead!'

  • By my granite shape of yore Passed the priests, with stately pschent, And the mystic boat upbore, Emblemed and magnificent.