Cytherean
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Cytherea.
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Astronomy. of or relating to the planet Venus.
Etymology
Origin of Cytherean
< Latin Cytherē(a) (< Greek Kythéreia Cytherea ( def. ) ) + -an
Example Sentences
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The rich mantle of Venetian fashion, the jewels, the coiffure, all show that an idealised portrait of some lovely Cytherean of Venice, and no true mythological piece, has been intended.
From The Later Works of Titian by Claude Phillips
The Cytherean babes had set their torches to that flotilla, and it had blazed like match-wood.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
Pallas Athene taught them by word of mouth, and the Cytherean was their rosy, warm, unfailing friend.
From Hills and the Sea by Hilaire Belloc
No matter who that Cytherean priestess was, he must have adored her whether sister, wife or daughter of dearest friend, teacher and paternal patron.
From The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils
The Cytherean spoke, and sought her son's embrace, and laid the armour glittering under an oak over against him.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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