Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having rosy fingers: Homer's favorite epithet of the dawn,
ῤοδοδάκτυλος ,)Ηώς .
Examples
“Touched by the rosy-fingered dawn, we can sit together in beauty, in peace and quiet, in calm communion with the sweet pink spirits that surround us always.”
The Huffington Post: Donna Henes: Blessings of the Pink Moon
“At least when referring to Homeric epics -- ox-eyed Hera, rosy-fingered dawn, and the like.”
“I wanted a fancier word than "epithet" for rosy-fingered Aurora and ox-eyed Hera, but I think that's just me.”
“I hope smarter people than me are busy figuring this out here in the rosy-fingered dawn of multimedia storytelling.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Conniff: Con Games: On Writing The Post-Papyrus Novel
“Crowds flocked to claim a seat while it was still dark, so that as rosy-fingered dawn appeared in the eastern sky that summer morning, a multitude was waiting for the king.”
“Her fellow celebrants comprise a married couple, the rosy-fingered Dawn and her feckless Irish husband Mick, and the rather sad Len, a building-site worker lately abandoned by his wife.”
“Imagine a goddess, joining her lover at night, then rising from her rosy-fingered bed at dawn, putting on eternally unruffled robes of splendor, taking up her silver bow, the quiver, and gracefully gliding into the day.”
“The rosy-fingered sunset slipped into the dark glove of night.”
“Surely if Bernard had any grace he would excuse himself and let Enrique journey with Margaret to Sheridan Square as rosy-fingered dawn crept into lower Manhattan, casting Enrique, he hoped, in a romantic light.”
“The first he called 'formulas': "rosy-fingered dawn," "the wine-dark sea," certain set phrases had long been known of in Homer and other oral epics.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘rosy-fingered’.
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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I'm Giving You the Finger
The finger list, that is!
fingertip, fingerprint, fingernail, finger-pointing, fingerling, fingerboard, fingerpost, fingerless, fingerpick, fingerstyle, finger-paint, finger-roll and 69 more...
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dawn
day begettings and beginnings
aurora, aubade, eos, morn, sunup, fall into place, click, sink in, heimdal, hued, crack, antelucan and 33 more...
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