ecphrasis
- a variation of ekphrasis.
Example Sentences
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There is much hard fighting with Thomyris, who on one occasion wishes to come to actual sword-play with Cyrus, and of whom we have the liveliest ecphrasis, or set description, in the whole romance.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
And then we pay for our ecphrasis by an immense Histoire of the Tyrian Élise, its original.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
