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  • noun Plural form of ephebe.

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Examples

  • One of his feral ephebes, Reginald, tells a duchess while chatting at the theater that what she terms “the great Anglo-Saxon empire” is, in fact, “rapidly becoming a suburb of Jerusalem.”

    Where the Wild Things Are 2008

  • One of his feral ephebes, Reginald, tells a duchess while chatting at the theater that what she terms “the great Anglo-Saxon empire” is, in fact, “rapidly becoming a suburb of Jerusalem.”

    Where the Wild Things Are 2008

  • One of his feral ephebes, Reginald, tells a duchess while chatting at the theater that what she terms “the great Anglo-Saxon empire” is, in fact, “rapidly becoming a suburb of Jerusalem.”

    Where the Wild Things Are 2008

  • The character of these lethal Narcissi is well netted in a phrase coined by Sandie Byrne, who refers to them as “feral ephebes.”

    Where the Wild Things Are 2008

  • The character of these lethal Narcissi is well netted in a phrase coined by Sandie Byrne, who refers to them as “feral ephebes.”

    Where the Wild Things Are 2008

  • The character of these lethal Narcissi is well netted in a phrase coined by Sandie Byrne, who refers to them as “feral ephebes.”

    Where the Wild Things Are 2008

  • Sura LII, 20-24 of the Koran promises that in paradise one can enjoy "houris with large eyes," while the pleasures of Gay sex are promised in Sura LXXVI, 19, where one may enjoy "immortal ephebes, whom you might take for separate pearls."

    Christianity's Persecution of Gays: Historical Bigotry 2007

  • Briefly MacMurrough glimpsed balmy waters where ephebes naked bathed.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • MacMurrough conjured Arcadian groves where lover and beloved, ephebes both, reclined upon the coarse grass.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Briefly MacMurrough glimpsed balmy waters where ephebes naked bathed.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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