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/fˈɛroʊ/ /fˈeɪroʊ/ Listen

noun

Pharaoh n.

A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.

See Faro.

Pharaoh's chicken (Zool.), the gier-eagle, or Egyptian vulture; so called because often sculpured on Egyptian monuments. It is nearly white in color.

Pharaoh's rat (Zool.), the common ichneumon.

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Etymology of 'Pharaoh'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pharaoh" Quotes from Famous Books

... spring. The first of these journeys was in 1861, the last within a few weeks of her death. The spiritual condition of those she visited is thus described by Miss Whately: "The mass of the peasants are little, if at all, different from what they were in the days of Pharaoh. Instead of praying to gods of stone and revering brutes, it is true they now call on the Almighty, but know scarcely anything about Him, neither His Word nor His laws. Much of the religion of the fellah consists in prostrations, and his spontaneous prayers are usually invocations to dead ...

— Excellent Women • Various

... bringing good news be differently received from the one that brings the ill? He did not make, the news, he simply did his duty; the same in both cases. He is merely the telegraph instrument. Yet it is so ever. King Pharaoh slew the bearer of ill-tidings; that was human nature. And General Hampton brought in the tall stripling to his table, to honour him, to get the fullest details, to glory in every item as though it all were due to himself. Rolf's wonderful journey was dilated on, and in the reports to Albany ...

— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

... of a handsome young man living in a country where there isn't a pretty face to be seen on the sunny side of a blanket. Write that Kirry joins with her love and best respects and she's busy whitewashing, and he'd better have no truck with Pharaoh's daughters." ...

— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine

... hammer was wielded by human arm; the mill-stones were turned by wind and water; the boxes and bales were carried by pack-animals or in sailing vessels,—these processes of production and transportation were conducted in practically the same way as in the time of Pharaoh or of Alexander the Great. A series of discoveries and inventions, made in England between 1735 and 1784, substituted the machine for the tool; the power of steam for the power of wind, water or human muscle; and set up the factory to ...

— The American Empire • Scott Nearing

... occasion it arrived before the jury under the name of the "Passage of the Rubicon!" but Pharaoh, poorly disguised under Caesar's mantle, was recognized and repulsed with all the honors that were ...

— International Short Stories: French • Various

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