Comus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Comus
< Latin < Greek kômos revel; akin to comedy
Example Sentences
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At that time, R. F. Goodlett sought out financial backers to construct a vaudeville theater called The Comus.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 22, 2016
After a spell in the progressive rock outfit Comus, she joined the avant garde band Henry Cow, whose output mixed jazz, prog rock and classical music, much of it improvised.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2013
The Comus Club affair that night drove home the message that we need as many celebrations as we can fit into a lifetime.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2012
Readings at a series of key locations, including the Comus Inn, picked up no sound.
From Washington Post
Dante wrote the Vita Nuova at a comparatively early age, just as Milton wrote L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas in the springtime of his life.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
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