Parsifal

[pahr-suh-fuh l, -fahl]

noun

(italics) a music drama by Richard Wagner: composed 1877–82; première 1882.
Teutonic Legend. Percival(def 1).

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Contemporary Examples of parsifal

Thoroughly scarred by his past, Parsifal leaves an urban life to return to his childhood forest home.
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Historical Examples of parsifal

So in Parsifal the white dove descends, overshadowing the Grail.
Bride of the Mistletoe
James Lane Allen
That is the key-note of Parsifal, the Knight of the Sangrail.
Parsifal
H. R. Haweis
At this moment Gurnemanz, accompanied by Parsifal and Kundry, enter.
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H. R. Haweis
Yet was this the very crime to which Klingsor would drive her for the ruin of Parsifal.
Parsifal
H. R. Haweis
Two days passed, on the first of which Parsifal was given, and on the second Meistersinger.
Michael
E. F. Benson

British Dictionary definitions for parsifal

Parsifal

Parzival

noun

German myth the hero of a medieval cycle of legends about the Holy GrailEnglish eqivalent: Percival

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