Orphean
Britishadjective
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of or relating to Orpheus
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melodious or enchanting
Example Sentences
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The question of who is wooed by the power of music continued to linger in my mind after my weekend of Orphean operas.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2018
But these friendly interactions only seem so sweet because they mark the coda to an Orphean journey.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2016
Because the seams run far under Glace Bay, Tossy's Orphean journey was just beginning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those Ausonia claims, Levantine regions these; the Azores send Their jessamine; her jessamine remote Caffraria: foreigners from many lands, They form one social shade, as if convened By magic summons of the Orphean lyre.
From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William
Orphean, or′fē-an, adj. pertaining to Orpheus, a poet who could move inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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