genii
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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And how could they be in any art that is, above and beyond all else, a celebration of genii loci, spirits of place?
From New York Times
It turns out that swifts, beloved genii locorum of bright summer streets, are just as much nocturnal creatures of thick summer darkness.
From New York Times
One of her fortes, as she notes herself in her introduction, is “playing with genii locorum … places with minds of their own.”
From New York Times
The baffled genii could not figure out what was happening.
From Forbes
The women, of course, were all fearfully alarmed, some believing that they were real soldiers, others that they were genii in the form of soldiers.
From Project Gutenberg
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