lampas
Americannoun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lampas
1515–25; < Middle French: disease of horses, Old French: disease (of men) with great thirst as symptom
Example Sentences
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The bed was hung with yellow lampas, spotted over with large white flowers.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Gautier, Th?ophile
In fact whenever a horse fails to eat, and if he does not exhibit very marked symptoms of a severe illness, they say at once "he has the lampas."
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Effulgebat lumen, lux intus stetit, non aliter quàm cum a cœlo lucidus splendet ætheris lampas.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
O tua, in his, quanto lampas formosior iret!
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Et nihilominus in ea christallina lampas plena balsamo pistico sed ardens et lucens, tam pro augendo lumine, quàm pro corrigendo aere, tamen etiam pro ministrando optimo odore.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
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