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- noun Plural form of
Xantippe .
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Eumenides have looked, not Xantippes of the pit, snake-tressed, finger-threatening, but radiantly calm as on antique gems; for him paws impatient the winged courser of the gods, champing unwelcome bit; him the starry deeps, the empyrean glooms, and far-flashing splendors await.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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