Crowns

Apollo wore a crown of laurels.

Bacchus, of grapes or ivy.

Ceres, of blades of wheat.

Comus, of roses.

CybĕlÊ, of pine leaves.

Flora, of flowers.

Fortune, of fir-slips.

The Graces, of olive-leaves.

Hercules, of popular-leaves.

Hymen, of roses.

Juno, of quince-leaves.

Jupiter, of oak-leaves.

The LarÊs, of rosemary.

Mercury, of ivy, olive-leaves, or mulberries.

Minerva, of olive-leaves.

The Muses, of flowers.

Pan, of pine-leaves.

Pluto, of cypress.

Pomõna, of fruits.

Saturn, of vine-leaves.

Venus, of myrtle or roses.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Crouchmas
Crow
Crow over One (To)
Crowbar
Crowd or Crouth
Crowdero
Crown
Crown Glass
Crown Office (The)
Crown of the East
Crowns
Crowner
Crow’s-Nest (The)
Crowquill (Alfred)
Croysado
Crozier or Crosier
Crucial
Crude Forms
Cruel (The)
Cruel (now Crewel) Garters
Crummy

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