Zakynthos

[zah-keen-thaws; English zuh-kin-thuh s] /ˈzɑ kin θɔs; English zəˈkɪn θəs/

noun

Greek name of Zante.

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Twenty-four come from Samos, and twenty more from Zakynthos, and twelve from Ithaca.

Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Homer
But this is now as undeserving of its constant Homeric epithet of leaf-shaking as is Zakynthos of its epithet of woody.

Vacation days in Greece Rufus B. Richardson

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