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It is a paean, an encomium to the color blue in its infinite shadings, spectral and moral, emollient and painful, serious and facetious.
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- noun A song of joyful praise or exultation.
- noun A fervent expression of joy or praise: "The art . . . was a paean to paganism” (Will Durant).
- noun An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.
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- Vergil's ninth Catalepton seems to have been written as a paean in honor of Messalla on receipt of the first incomplete report. — Vergil
- At the end of three weeks a coarse and discourteous paean was sung in the Woche. — Georges Guynemer
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It is a paean, an encomium to the color blue in its infinite shadings, spectral and moral, emollient and painful, serious and facetious.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4 - The monitor's chimes sang dieir three-note paean, and its raddled gray face appeared to announce the final score: thirteen to twelve. — Nightside The Long Sun
- It closes â” and the book closes â” with a sort of sugarplum paean, the sweets and spices being in the end gracefully spiritualised. — George Washington's Rules of Civility
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- Latin paeān, hymn of thanksgiving, often addressed to Apollo, from Greek paiān, from Paiā, a title of Apollo.
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