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noun
Royal rights, prerogatives and privileges actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
The emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre or sword.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
Decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership of an order or society; such as freemasonry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
Traditional dress and accessories of North American Indigenous nations worn for ritual purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
Finery, magnificent dress, or lavish or flashy costume.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, plural, plural-only
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noun
Sumptuous food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, obsolete, plural, plural-only
Synonyms: delicacies
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noun
A kind of large cigar of superior quality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
especially fine or decorative clothing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: array, raiment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment
Narrower terms: war paint
noun
paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance
Narrower terms: crown jewels
History
From Middle English regalie, from Medieval Latin rēgālia (“royal powers”), substantivisation of the neuter plural of rēgālis (“of a king”), from rēx (“king”). By surface analysis, regal + -ia.
Across languages
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
