pleiades

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You take away from English poetry one of its pleiades, and bereave it of a companionship more intimate than that of the nearest neighborhood of the stars above.

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  1. The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

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  1. a star cluster in the constellation Taurus
  2. (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion

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