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A crown is the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, victory, triumph, honor, and glory, as well as immortality, righteousness, and resurrection. In art, the crown may be shown being offered to those on Earth by angels. Apart from the traditional form, crowns also may be in the form of a wreath and be made of flowers, oak leaves or thorns and be worn by others, representing what the coronation part aims to symbolize with the specific crown. In religious art, a crown of stars is used similarly to a halo. Crowns worn by rulers often contain jewels. ==Terminology== Three distinct categories of crowns exist in those monarchies that use crowns or state regalia. *Coronation: worn by monarchs when being crowned. *State: worn by monarchs on other state occasions. (Note that similar headgear, worn by nobility and other high-ranking people below the ruler, is in English called a coronet, however in many languages the same word is used, e.g., French ''couronne'', German ''Krone'', Dutch ''kroon''.) *Consort crowns: worn by queens consort, signifying rank granted as a constitutional courtesy protocol. In Classical antiquity, the crown (''corona'') that was sometimes awarded to people other than rulers, such as triumphal military generals or athletes, was actually a wreath or chaplet, or ribbon-like diadem. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crown (headgear)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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