coronet
noun
[ ˈkɒr(ə)nɪt ]
• a small or relatively simple crown, especially as worn by lesser royalty and peers or peeresses.
• a ring of bone at the base of a deer's antler.
• the band of tissue on the lowest part of a horse's pastern, containing the horn-producing cells from which the hoof grows.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French coronete ‘small crown or garland’, diminutive of corone (see crown).
