Fomorian

[ foh-mawr-ee-uhn ]

noun

, Irish Legend.

1. one of a race of pirates or sea demons who raided and pillaged Ireland but were finally defeated: sometimes associated with the hostile powers of nature.

Example Sentences

His father, Elatha, was a Fomorian sea-king or pirate, and he repaired to his court.

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Then they called him "a Fomorian, and no man," and perforce made their circle wider.

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Shapes of Death and Horror, Fomorian apparitions, guarded the entrance.

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They seemed a resplendent Fomorian phantom against the stars.

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In the dim days of Fomorian and Firbolg, and for ages after, Erin was a land of forests, full of wild cattle and deer and wolves.

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