All 7 Uses of
coronation
in
Moby Dick
- By hints, I asked him whether he did not propose going back, and having a coronation; since he might now consider his father dead and gone, he being very old and feeble at the last accounts.†
Chpt 10-12
- It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through.†
Chpt 25-27
- Certain I am, however, that a king's head is solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad.†
Chpt 25-27
- But the only thing to be considered here, is this—what kind of oil is used at coronations?†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff!†
Chpt 25-27
- For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.†
Chpt 34-36
- And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese!†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
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(coronation) a ceremony of installing a new monarch (new king or queen)