coroun

Middle English

Noun

coroun

1. Alternative form of coroune
   • c. 1386–1388, (date written), Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women, in Walter W. Skeat (ed.), The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Vol. 3, second edition, published 1900. "Prologue of .ix. goode Wimmen.", text A, l. 150-157

     For al the world, right as the dayesye
     †I-coroned is with whyte leves lyte,
     Swich were the floures of hir coroun whyte.
     For of o perle fyn and oriental
     †Hir whyte coroun was y-maked al;
     †For which the whyte coroun, above the grene,
     †Made hir lyk a daysie for to sene,
     Considered eek the fret of gold above.

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   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume I, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Exodus XXX:3, page 265:

     And thow shalt clothe it with moost puyr gold, as wel the litel fier panne of it, as the walles bi enuyroun, and the hornes; and thow shalt make to it a coroun of gold bi enuyroun

     KJV: And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.