Parcae

American  

[pahr-see, -kahy] / ˈpɑr si, -kaɪ /

plural noun

singular

Parca

1. the three Fates of ancient Rome, developed out of the goddess Parca by identification with the Moerae of Greek mythology.

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Parcae British  

/ ˈpɑːsiː /

plural noun

1. Greek counterparts: the Moirai.  the Roman goddesses of fate

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Example Sentences

Or prayers the stony Parcae soothe, Or coax the thunder from its mark?

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In such prelude old, such good-night ditty to Peleus, Sang their deep divination, ineffable, holy, the Parcae.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

When I came out, there were no heiresses except the Parcae, confirmed old maids; and no very rich dowager, except my grandmother, old Terra.'

From Ixion In Heaven by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Spartan is weaving the webs of the Parcae for his own feet.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The Parcae and the Erinnyes figured as dark angels of Destiny.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn