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
Example Sentences
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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 Manning, Frederic
Thus attended, hither wending, Floats the lovely oread now, Eden's arch of promise bending Over her translucent brow.
From Poems by Morris, George Pope
The other men are all mad about you, and Gontrand tells me he wants you to give him sittings for the head of an oread, but he cannot have you.
From Olive in Italy by Dalton, Moray
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 Carman, Bliss
Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?—But then she had such a head, and they were all rather silly!
From There & Back by MacDonald, George
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