Laestrygones

American

[les-trig-uh-neez] / lɛsˈtrɪg əˌniz /

Also Laestrygonians

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

giant cannibals encountered by Odysseus on his return to Ithaca.

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That blessed star yonder, whose rays shine far out into the darkness, is a light burning in some warm, comfortable room, which forms—Heaven be praised!—part of the habitation of human and civilized beings—not Laestrygon savages.

From Captain Fracasse by Gautier, Théophile

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