Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mountain-laurel, Kalmia latifolia.
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Examples
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In both hands he took a cup of ivy-wood, and drank the unmixed wine of the dark grape-mother, until he was encompassed and heated with the flame of wine.
Alcestis 2007
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In both hands he took a cup of ivy-wood, and drank the unmixed wine of the dark grape-mother, until he was encompassed and heated with the flame of wine.
Alcestis 2007
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We, as we trod the infinite fruit of Iacchus, mingled and wound in the rhythm of the revel, and now the fathomless flood flowed down, and like boats our cups of ivy-wood swam on the sweet surges; dipping wherewith, we drank just as it lay at our hand, nor missed the warm water-nymphs overmuch.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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So I went up to him with an ivy-wood bowl of black wine in my hands:
The Odyssey 1900
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The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivy-wood, and taking a seat opposite
The Odyssey 1900
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He mixed wine also in bowls of ivy-wood, and took his seat facing
The Odyssey 1900
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Finding that I would not taste the alcoholic liquor, which the natives always mixed with a large proportion of water, Doto rose, went out, and returned with a great bowl of ivy-wood, curiously carved, and full of milk.
In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878
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A deep bowl of ivy-wood, too, I will give thee, rubbed with sweet bees'-wax, a twy-eared bowl newly wrought, smacking still of the knife of the graver.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivy-wood, and taking a seat opposite Ulysses told him to begin.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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So I went up to him with an ivy-wood bowl of black wine in my hands:
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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