calliopean
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of calliopean
Example Sentences
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I have thought of our calliopean President often in recent days: his pervasiveness in the world and his perversion of it.
From The New Yorker
Throughout, Orpheus is suffused with Calliopean care, attentiveness and pride.
From The Guardian
Yale's conservative Calliopean Society, nurtured by that angry Yale Locke, William F. Buckley Jr., author of the apopemptic God and Man at Yale and now editor of the National Review, has a waiting list.
From Time Magazine Archive
The extreme wings and the connecting wings on either side are very elegant, and fitted up for various libraries connected with the institution, such as the Students' Library, the Reading Room, the Calliopean Library, and the Livonian Library.
From Project Gutenberg
It was so considerable that these Southerners withdrew from the great debating societies of the college and formed a society of their own, which they called the Calliopean.
From Project Gutenberg
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