Locrian
Britishadjective
noun
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Classical music has too many rules for its own good, but the enterprising Locrian Chamber Players have two laudable ones.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2015
The Locrian Chamber Players have several quirky policies, and they usually honor them to the letter.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2011
Timaus the Locrian, and some other ancient Pythagoreans, gave the whole doctrine a purely symbolic meaning.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
There now have come the Locrian folk Narycian walls to build; And Lyctian Idomeneus Sallentine meads hath filled400 With war-folk; Philoctetes there holdeth Petelia small, Now by that Melibœan duke fenced round with mighty wall.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
But one of the great points which he uses against this Sicilian historian is in reference to the question of the origin of the Locrian colony.
From Miscellanies by Robert Ross
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