copple-crown

English

Noun

copple-crown (plural copple-crowns)

  1. A crested or high-topped crown, head or peak.
    • 1638, Thomas Randolph, Amyntas:
      Like the copple-crown the lapwing has.
    • 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyric Of The Dean:
      the flowery downs,
      With spiral tops and copple crowns
  • copple-crowned

References
  • copple-crown in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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