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"Royal staff"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (SCEPTRE).
Definitions
a ceremonial or emblematic staff
Word origin
From Middle English septre, sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).
Used in a sentence
“To the fleet he came / Bearing rich ranſom glorious to redeem / His daughter, and his hands charged with the wreath / And golden ſceptre of the God shaft-arm’d.”
“But what had occupied him most was the robe he was to wear at his coronation, the robe of tissued gold, and the ruby-studded crown, and the sceptre with its rows and rings of pearls.”
“To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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