dedal
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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Former President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the dedal in 2018.
From Washington Times
It has reissued Greta Grossman’s 1947 Grasshopper lamp and the 1966 Stokke Chair by Jens Qvistgaard, and is now the sole owner of reproduction rights for the cult Hungarian designer Mathieu Mategot’s work, starting with a multicolored coat rack and two pieces in his signature perforated metal: the Nagasaki chair and the Dedal bookcase.
From New York Times
To begin with mythical antiquity—the Chimæra has given us ‘chimerical’, Hermes ‘hermetic’, Tantalus ‘to tantalize’, Hercules ‘herculean’, Proteus ‘protean’, Vulcan ‘volcano’ and ‘volcanic’, and Dædalus ‘dedal’, if this word may on Spenser’s and Shelley’s authority be allowed.
From Project Gutenberg
To begin with mythical antiquity—the Chimaera has given us 'chimerical,' Hermes 'hermetic,' Pan 'panic,' Paean, being a name of Apollo, the 'peony,' Tantalus 'to tantalize,' Hercules 'herculean,' Proteus 'protean,' Vulcan 'volcano' and 'volcanic,' and Daedalus 'dedal,' if this word, for which Spenser, Wordsworth, and Shelley have all stood godfathers, may find allowance with us.
From Project Gutenberg
Behold the mansion reared by dedal Jack See the malt stored in many a refluent sack, In the proud cirque of Jackjohn's bivouac.
From Project Gutenberg
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