Charybdis
noun
a whirlpool in the Strait of Messina off the NE coast of Sicily.
Charybdian
-
a word derived from
Charybdis.
Example Sentences
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Lusters jingled to the touch of feathers, cornices shed down their minute particles of dust to the Charybdian maw of traveling gramophone.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman
