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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Valkyries.

Etymologies

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Valkyrie +‎ -an

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Examples

  • So it was with a light heart and my hat on three hairs that I found myself strolling under the famous lime trees to the Brandenburg Thor a few weeks later, taking a long slant at the Thier Garten in the June sunshine, and marvelling at the Valkyrian proportions of German women - which awoke memories of my youthful grapplings with that blubbery baroness in Munich ...

    Watershed 2010

  • Sarah Bernhardt, and the poetess and composer Augusta Holmes with the “Valkyrian” blond mane that contrasted with the jet-black hair of Emma Calvé, from whom beauty radiated.83

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Sarah Bernhardt, and the poetess and composer Augusta Holmes with the “Valkyrian” blond mane that contrasted with the jet-black hair of Emma Calvé, from whom beauty radiated.83

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Sarah Bernhardt, and the poetess and composer Augusta Holmes with the “Valkyrian” blond mane that contrasted with the jet-black hair of Emma Calvé, from whom beauty radiated.83

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • So it was with a light heart and my hat on three hairs that I found myself strolling under the famous lime trees to the Brandenburg Thor a few weeks later, taking a long slant at the Thier Garten in the June sunshine, and marvelling at the Valkyrian proportions of German women - which awoke memories of my youthful grapplings with that blubbery baroness in Munich ...

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • A great Valkyrian chorus of shouts swelled out suddenly along the line, and, looking up, I saw General

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • When she saw him she held him fiercely in her arms, her big frame aching with a Valkyrian ardor to lift the brave warrior on a winged horse and carry him away from the earth.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • New York State Police Investigator Jeffrey Moore said more than 6 feet of water filled the woman's cottage at the Valkyrian Motel.

    NY Daily News LILLIAN RIZZO 2011

  • But they just about did with a huge metal bedstead strewn with Valkyrian paraphernalia (breast plates, helmets and so one) as well as a large alarm clock.

    Gramophone James Jolly 2010

  • She then shrieked with a Valkyrian savagery pitched between for 'Hang You From The Heavens' as she rose up onto the frontstage monitor, throwing her black hair backward with a jerk of her neck as she spat out each phrase.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

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