Comus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Comus
< Latin < Greek kômos revel; akin to comedy
Example Sentences
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Old Hundred Road was closed between Barnesville Road and Comus Road, while some lanes of Rockville Pike were blocked after a vehicle was stranded in high water.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2019
In 1917, for example, the Comus Soda Fountain on Common Street and St. Charles Avenue advertised an oyster sandwich for 10 cents.
From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 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
It was because, for the first time in many generations, the Comus ball was held in one of the newer public buildings instead of in its accustomed place.
From The Mardi Gras Mystery by Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry)
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