deshret
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A red crown of Ancient Egypt symbolizing control over Lower Egypt.
Example Sentences
- "Deshret This red, chair-shaped crown indicated that Tut was ruler of Lower Egypt. Gods and goddesses also wore deshrets, but without the cobra. Tut would mainly wear his deshret to really important ceremonies (he would certainly never be seen wearing it to do the dishes)."
- "The deshrets of the rest of the Legion were polished and plumed with gold and amethyst."
- "She [Neith] was a war goddess and huntress whose regalia included a deshret, or red crown, which symbolized Lower Egypt and the fertile Nile basin."
- "On the other side, the ruler sports a deshret from Lower Egypt as he surveys his fallen foes."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Egyptian S-r:t*-S3 (dšrt), from S-r-G27 (dšr, “red”) with S3 as determinative + t (-t, feminine ending), thus literally meaning “the red one”.