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  • noun Plural form of pythoness.

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Examples

  • And if one descend lower yet, into the hole-in-the-wall places of the pythonesses, clairvoyants, and mediums, what does one find except agencies of prostitution and gambling?

    Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877

  • Those who thus suffer are as violent in their antics as pythonesses, as frantic as _monads_, as excited as _bacchantes_; it is a revival of antiquity, pure and simple.

    The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Those who thus suffer are as violent in their antics as pythonesses, as frantic as _monads_, as excited as _bacchantes_; it is a revival of antiquity, pure and simple.

    Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Those who thus suffer are as violent in their antics as pythonesses, as frantic as _monads_, as excited as _bacchantes_; it is a revival of antiquity, pure and simple.

    The Physiology of Marriage, Complete Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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