epopee
Americannoun
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an epic.
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epic poetry.
noun
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an epic poem
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epic poetry in general
Etymology
Origin of epopee
1690–1700; < French épopée < Greek epopoiía, equivalent to épo ( s ) epos + poi ( eîn ) to make + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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GOGOL.—Russian taste was already veering to the epic novel or epopee in prose, of which Gogol was the most illustrious representative until Tolstoy.
From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
Herder calls the "Messiah" a Christian epopee, in musical sounds.
From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore
Yet The Condemned in Doubt is a sort of moral epopee, adapted to the stage, possessing real beauty and not without depth.
From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
ARIOSTO.—Ariosto wrote Orlando Furioso, which is not the epic in parody, as has been too often observed, but the gay and joyous epopee of Orlando and his companions.
From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
It must suffice to reproduce here only the most beautiful and most characteristic passages of this little national epopee, a truly Homeric picture of the quasi-barbarous times and manners of knightly Christendom.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black
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