Eolian
adjective
a variant spelling of Aeolian
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- a variation of Aeolian.
Eolian
British
/ iːˈəʊlɪən /
adjective
eolian
Scientific
/ ē-ō′lē-ən /
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Eolian L.P., the developer, recently brought similar battery projects online in Texas and plans to begin construction in Portland later this year.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
It's a short step from Hopkins to the full-blown pantheism of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013
I’d had more money living on the streets of Tarbean “Your timing’s good today,” Deoch said as I approached the Eolian.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
If you knew good music from bad, you knew the Eolian had the best.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
“Isn’t this the Eolian? I had heard that this is where pride pays silver and plays golden.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Aeolian, sometimes spelled eolian or œolian, are deposits of windblown sediments.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Basaltic minerals in the mudstone are similar to those in nearby eolian deposits.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2014
After a brief disporting of this air-sprite we hear again the soft eolian harmonies, which rise and fall until lulled into silence.
From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel
The occupants of the dining-room were all ladies, and again I noted the fact that they were all blondes: beautiful, graceful, courteous, and with voices softer and sweeter than the strains of an eolian harp.
From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Lane, Mary E. Bradley
A strange, roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks, and the wind made in their branches the music of eolian harps.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
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