Crossword-Solution: HTEE 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Just over the throne, and in the centre of the Palace and of the city, rose in gracefully diminishing stages of fantastic woodcarving a tapering _phya-sath_ or spire similar to those surmounting sacred buildings, and crowned with the gilded _Htee_, an honour which royalty alone shared with ecclesiastical sanctity.

Did you see that red glint from the top as the sun caught the htee at an angle? That was probably a real ruby, for it flashed out like a sword blade.

There are many real stones set up there, and the htee alone cost £50,000! Coming back to earth, look at the glitter on all these shrines that line the platform on both sides.

The great gilt dome, with its brilliant golden _htee_, grows and grows and increases upon the vision, until its enormous bulk is at last fully realised.

The new _htee_ was sent down from Mandalay in 1882, and was received with the greatest pomp and ceremony by all the officials, both European and Burmese.