cyathus
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Origin of cyathus
< Latin < Greek kyáthos kyathos
Example Sentences
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There is something odd, mystical, and shall we say affected, about both the Brownings, which mars their general effect—the wine is good, but the shape of the cyathus is deliberately queer.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
Cyathiformis is from cyathus, a drinking cup; formis, form or shape.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
You kneading-trough, prepare some dough; You cyathus, pour forth wine; Where is the cup? come hither, cup, And empt and wash yourself.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Each cup shall be broken, Each tower shall fall, All drink be bitter, Bitter as gall, The dark heart go lonely— Save for one tower, One cyathus only, One wine of power!
From Perpetual Light : a memorial by Benét, William Rose
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