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- noun Plural form of
ephemerid .
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He had eaten all the whilepaper, swallowed the lustres, de-voured forty flights of styearcases, chewed up all the mensas and seccles, ronged the records, made mundballs of the ephemerids and vorasioused most glutinously with the very timeplace in the ternitary — not too dusty a cicada of neutriment for a chittinous chip so mitey.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Or brittle ephemerids, spinning to death in the haze
Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Various 1912
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On June 1, 1949, he reported to his friend Georges Duthuit: One evening as we were on our way back to Ussy, at sunset, we suddenly found ourselves being escorted by ephemerids of a strange kind, 'mayflies,' I think.
NYT > Home Page By DENIS DONOGHUE 2011
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