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Pyrrhic   Listen
noun
Pyrrhic  n.  
1.
An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.
2.
(Pros.) A foot consisting of two short syllables.





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... agreeable life in the midst of a nation which he aimed at saving. Enchanted with the bravery of the Souliots, and their manners, which recalled to him the simplicity of Homeric times, he assisted at their banquets, extended upon the turf; he learnt their pyrrhic dance, and he sang in unison the airs of Riga, harmonizing his steps to the sound of their national mandolin. Alas! he carried too far his benevolent condescension. Towards the beginning of April he went to hunt in the marshes of Missolonghi. He entered ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 336 Saturday, October 18, 1828 • Various


Words linked to "Pyrrhic" :   foot, metrical foot, dibrach, ceremonial dance, metrical unit, ritual dance, Pyrrhus, ritual dancing, Pyrrhic victory


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