ephebes

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Behind Pier Paolo Pasolini's ribald trifecta-through April 23-of ripe teenage backsides, golden-skinned ephebes, and naughty nuns lies a melancholy philosophy, in which the ephemeral joys of sex and love are inextricable from social power-brokering and street-level flimflam.

Examples (3)

  • Behind Pier Paolo Pasolini's ribald trifecta-through April 23-of ripe teenage backsides, golden-skinned ephebes, and naughty nuns lies a melancholy philosophy, in which the ephemeral joys of sex and love are inextricable from social power-brokering and street-level flimflam. —  Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
  • For Vidal, himself given to the fantastic, these novels contained "lost or losing golden ephebes [youths]". —  Mail & Guardian Online
  • "Consumers don't choke on the shit that they eat (as the ephebes are shown doing in the dining hall), they enjoy it. —  GreenCine Daily
 

Tags

ephebes hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 15 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

zusammen · focuses · pseudo-science · scrabbling · hamate

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

silence · spell it rite · britney · bunda · settii