oread
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of oread
< Latin Orēad- (stem of Orēas ) < Greek Oreiad- (stem of Oreiás ), noun use of oreiás of the mountains, equivalent to órei(os) of the mountains (derivative of óros mountain) + -as feminine patronymic suffix
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Through the water-eye of night, Midway between eve and dawn, See the chase, the rout, the flight In deep forest; oread, faun, Goat-foot, antlers laid on neck; Ravenous all the line for speed.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
April now in morning clad Like a gleaming oread, With the south wind in her voice, Comes to bid the world rejoice.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
You may see the laurel's girth, Big of bloom, give fragrant birth To the oread whose hair, Musk and darkness, light and air, Fills the hush with wonder there.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
You are white beneath the plum-blossoms, As an oread beneath the shadow Of flowering branches: immobile, Among things fugitive and frail.
From Eidola by Frederic Manning
Thus attended, hither wending, Floats the lovely oread now, Eden's arch of promise bending Over her translucent brow.
From Poems by George Pope Morris
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