antique crown

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

So called from being one of the oldest heraldic crown insignia.

Noun[edit]

antique crown (plural antique crowns)

  1. (heraldry) Synonym of eastern crown
    • 1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 298:
      The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.
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