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 wandered through the three levels of the Eolian, but Denna was nowhere to be found.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
They paid to play because you never knew who might be in the Eolian that night, listening.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
They had already claimed a bench with a good view of the fountain in front of the Eolian.
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
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 Mary E. Bradley Lane
A harp accompaniment like rustling leaves plays around the melody, which is of eolian sweetness, until suddenly, like a fitful breeze, there comes an elfish measure all in the treble.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
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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