Charites
Americanplural noun
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In September, Catholic Charites used $476.99 in Neediest Cases money to buy Daysi a new bed to replace the dilapidated one she had been using.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2015
The artistical hurly-burly of unharmonious ignes fatui is only the forerunner of the melodious Charites; and these alone insinuate themselves into the softer souls.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
Two of the Charites were to be dressed, one holding a fan and half closing her eyelids to the gently-swaying feathers; the other dancing in the folds of her robe.
From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Lou?s, Pierre
Tres Charites Veneri assistunt, dominamque sequuntur: Hincque voluptates, atque alimenta parant; Lætitiam Euphrosyne, speciosum Aglaia nitorem; Suadela est Pithus, blandus et ore lepos.
From Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 by Various
At their instance the following epigram was written to him by Messer Fabio Segni, a gentleman of Florence: Hujus cum regeret mortales spiritus artus Pictoris, Charites supplicuere Jovi.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo by De Vere, Gaston du C.
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