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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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triple crown

Part of SpeechnounUsed In Literature ↓

The three-tiered tiara formerly worn by Popes.

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“1997: The last in this series of deaths was that of Pope Eugenius’s successor Anastasius IV, who was succeeded by a man of a very different calibre: Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, the only Englishman ever to wear the Triple Crown. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, p. 281)”

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successfultriregnumdiademtriumviratetriarchyternarytrebletricerion

Poetry examples for “triple crown”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

EPILOGUE.byJohn Dryden

scarlet gown, lined through with ermin, and richly daubed with gold

and silver lace; on his head a triple crown of gold, and a glorious

collar of gold and precious stones, St Peter's keys, a number of

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