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Pharaonic
[ fair-ey-on-ik, far- ]
adjective
- Sometimes pharonic. of or like a Pharaoh:
living in Pharaonic splendor.
- Usually pharonic. impressively or overwhelmingly large, luxurious, etc.:
a construction project of pharaonic proportions.
- pharonic, cruelly oppressive; tyrannical:
pharaonic tax laws.
Other Words From
- pre-Phar·a·onic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of Pharaonic1
Example Sentences
Pharaonic scenes, Muslim symbols, poetry, and Coptic icons—great vivid murals bloomed onto the walls.
Twice or three times as high as the admirable Pharaonic Temple, its impudent facade rises there, painted a dirty yellow.
We have searched in vain for such a form among the plans of those pharaonic 351temples which have been measured.
Perhaps from one of the numerous pavilions which went to make up a pharaonic palace.
The Pharaonic temples were laid upon the surface rather than solidly rooted in the soil.
We have now to describe an arrangement which, though rare in the Pharaonic period, was afterwards common enough.
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