Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
colossus .
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Examples
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Ce fut sur les debris de la nature que les hommes eleverent le colosse imaginaire de la Divinite.
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And the colosse of _Serapus_ nine cubits longe of Smarage or _Emerauldes_, or the famous Labyrinth of
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Le premier, trapu, massif, tout en muscles: un colosse noir du plus beau noir.
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Then a magnificent blonde, an old friend of theirs, who speaks French absolutely like a Frenchwoman, and says thee and thou to M. Josselin, and introduces me to her brother, un vrai type de colosse bon enfant, d'une tenue irréprochable [thank you, M. Paroly], who also speaks the French of France, for he was at school there -- a school-fellow of our host.
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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Thus Holland wrote ‘cirque’, but we ‘circus’; ‘cense’, but we ‘census’; ‘interreign’, but we ‘interregnum’; Sylvester ‘cest’, but we ‘cestus’; ‘quirry’, but we ‘equerry’; ‘colosse’, but we still ‘colossus’; Golding ‘ure’, but we
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Ce fut sur les debris de la nature que les hommes eleverent le colosse imaginaire de la Divinite.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Ce fut sur les debris de la nature que les hommes eleverent le colosse imaginaire de la Divinite.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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