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
Tritonian Pallas is planted in glittering halo and Gorgonian terror.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
It was indeed Lady Gorgon in her Gorgonian chariot.
From The Bedford-Row Conspiracy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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
He grounds this opinion on what is said by Statius and Sebosus, that certain islands called Hesperides lay forty days sail west from the Gorgonian islands on the coast of Africa.
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