Comus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Comus
< Latin < Greek kômos revel; akin to comedy
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Hershey was born in Comus, Md. As an Army photographer during World War II, he helped document the Battle of Anzio and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, his family said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2015
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
By the time we arrived in Queens at the Comus Club’s 89th annual Christmas Ball, I’d already begun to reconsider my position that the minor bowl games that dot the college football landscape were irrelevant.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2012
But there, alas! finds no repose From Fancy's Comus crew, Since dream he must, where'er he goes, With nothing else to do.
From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.
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