Alcandre

American  

[al-kan-dree] / ælˈkæn dri /

noun

1. the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.

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Example Sentences

Ms. Smith brings her been-there-and-loved-it veteran’s aura to the role of the weary sorcerer Alcandre, a Prosperolike figure who works her magic from the Stygian depths of a cave in France.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2011

She wrote admirably for that age, and was the author of the Histoire des Amours du Grand Alcandre, and of some Court Chronicles, which she published under the patronymic of Dupilaust.

From The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 1 by Pardoe, Julia