Icarian Sea

noun

1. the part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek islands of Patmos and Leros.

Icarian Sea

noun

1. the part of the Aegean Sea between the islands of Patmos and Leros and the coast of Asia Minor, where, according to legend, Icarus fell into the sea

Example Sentences

His body was never recovered, but that part of the sea was afterwards called the Icarian Sea.

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And the sea in which poor Icarus was drowned was called forever afterward by his name, the Icarian Sea.

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The fall of Icarus was probably invented to explain the name of the Icarian Sea.

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Let our lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where "still the shore" a "brave attempt resounds."

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