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a•tef-crown
(ä′tef kroun′),USA pronunciation n.
- Eastern Religionsa symbolic headdress of certain Egyptian gods, as Osiris, and of Egyptian kings, consisting of a tall conical cap flanked by two plumes and bearing representations of the uraeus and the sun.
- atef, vocalization of Egyptian yt father + the f-symbol (a horned viper), origin, originally taken as part of the word, but now thought to be a nonphonetic determinative
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