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the ceremony of installing a new monarch (new king or queen)- She watched Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
coronation = the ceremony of installing a new monarch (king or queen)
- looked more like a coronation than an inauguration
- he was talked about for a week; then the coronation of the queen of England took place, followed by the theft of Mademoiselle Mars's diamonds; and so people talked of something else.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Let us now proceed to the coronation of King Frank of Narnia and Helen his Queen.C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew
- There's order given for her coronation.William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
- on, my coronation day... I swore an oath that, if once I established peace in Narnia, I would sail eastC.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
- The coronation is part of the wedding.Kiera Cass -- The One
- And more to this the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and the King's own Coronation Oath!Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
- You wouldn't survive the coronation night.Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
- But when the Augur named Cain announces the coronation, I stifle a gasp.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- You only thought you missed the Coronation of Charlemagne!Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- She took charge and helped me pick out the dress I wouldwear for the coronation.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- Let us go backward a few hours, and place ourselves in Westminster Abbey, at four o'clock in the morning of this memorable Coronation Day.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- And then it's all off to a nice island for a big coronation feast.Terry Pratchett -- Nation
- When I visited Felicia the following day, she was dressed in her coronation gown, her crown, and all her necklaces.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- "I command the council to make all the necessary arrangements for my coronation," the boy proclaimed.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- I was worried, but with the impending Coronation, it seemed about the only course available to us, and I decided to go along for the whole ride.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- Or are you a ... a Coronation Street person?Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
- The King of Ceilan rode through his city with a large ruby in his hand, at the ceremony of his coronation.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I caught with ringing in the king's affairs upon his coronation-day, sir.William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
coronation = ceremony to install
coronation = the ceremony of installing a new monarch
coronation = ceremony of installing a new monarch
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