Pigmy
noun
Pigmies
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pluralof Pigmy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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At every period the geographers of this nation have placed their River of Pigmies much more to the south.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
Pigmies are pigmies still, though perch’d on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
Page 220 Stanley conducts the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition across Africa, and discovers the Pigmies, and the Mountains of the Moon.
From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs
It seems difficult to me not to associate them with the Pigmies of Pomponius Mela.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
Our favourite piece is the Battle of the Cranes and Pigmies; for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humour which many years later enlivened thousands of breakfast tables.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
