A crown of red-hot iron set on the head of regicides.
“He was adjudged
To have his head seared with a burning crown.”
Tragedy of Hoffmann. (1631.)
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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.
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