Cabiri
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- Cabirean adjective
- Cabirian adjective
- Cabiric adjective
- Cabiritic adjective
Example Sentences
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Garfield himself was drawn to Murphy’s phrase for what the Cabiri do: “performative mythology.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2013
“Ailuran,” he adds, is just the prequel to an ambitious planned trilogy that will span 9,000 years of human myth: “It’s hands-down the most challenging work the Cabiri has ever done.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2013
Or ghost stories by candlelight with aerial troupe the Cabiri -- with members of the audience being chosen as storytellers.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2012
Watching members of the Cabiri when they're first working out their routines makes clear just how difficult that is.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2011
The chief mysteries were those of the Cabiri, of Eleusis, and of Isis.
From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
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