Ethiop
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Ethiop
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Aethiops < Greek Aithíops
Example Sentences
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Sally is just taking note of a finale of the Ethiop choir.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
At death Cassiopea was made a constellation of thirteen stars. ... that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Starred Ethiop Queen = Cassiope, wife of King Cepheus, who was placed among the stars.
From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous
Proud in the Syrian sun, In gold and purple sheen, The dusky Ethiop queen Smiled on King Solomon.
From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
Dromo, one of his slaves, came to announce to his dread lord that an aged Ethiop was waiting to see him, and Agias did not need to be told that this was Sesostris.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
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