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Euxine

American  
[yook-sin, -sahyn] / ˈjuk sɪn, -saɪn /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Black Sea.


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Of all that I had, nothing remains to me intact except the dye-house in Tyre and a small fleet of corn ships that has but now arrived from the Euxine.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

Though close to the sea it had no good harbour, and it was just too far from the mouth of the Hellespont to command effectually the exit of the Euxine.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

The Megarians, almost more than any other Greeks, devoted their attention to the Euxine, and the foundation of Byzantium was but one of their many achievements.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

The Greeks and Romans used combs made of boxwood, which they obtained as we do, from the shores of the Euxine Sea, and the mountain-ridge of Cytorus, in Galatia.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

In this harness hard I have borne my nights of winter storm that starred The Euxine into ice and scared the strong Paionians.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

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