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- adjective
hyperborean
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Examples
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Our hyperboreal Palinurus was perfectly acquainted with this modern
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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Icebergs, without parapet or girdle, where ancient crestfallen cormorants and the souls of sailors recently dead come lean against the hyperboreal nights of enchantment.
Irish Blogs 2010
mollusque commented on the word hyperboreal
Which makes it clear what the word 'castle' in the message really means: it refers to the hyperboreal, the northernmost castle, where the Templars kept the Grail, probably the mythical Monsalvat.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 144
September 29, 2008