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Brewer's: Burning Crown
(A). A crown of red-hot iron set on the head of regicides.
He was adjudged To have his head seared with a burning crown.
Tragedy of Hoffmann. (1631.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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