1825–35; < New Latin Gorgoni ( a ) genus name ( see Gorgon, -ia) + -an
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In 15 ingenious novels of suspense and intrigue, his protagonists�in Ambler land, there are few heroes�are almost invariably decent, intelligent, well-bred men more or less unwittingly enmeshed in Gorgonian webs of political and financial conspiracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was indeed Lady Gorgon in her Gorgonian chariot.
From The Bedford-Row Conspiracy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Far off from these a flow and silent Stream Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls; Which Medusa with Gorgonian Terror guards.
From An Essay on Criticism by Oldmixon, John
Thereon was Strife, thereon Fortitude, and thereon was chilling Pursuit; 228 on it was the Gorgonian head of the dreadful monster, dire, horrible, a portent of ægis-bearing Jove.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
And Lucy, blushing, starting back, and looking at Perkins in a very melancholy way, made him a little curtsey, and went off to the Gorgonian party with her cousin.
From The Bedford-Row Conspiracy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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