Platonic year
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Platonic year
First recorded in 1630–40
Example Sentences
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Oh for the revolution of the great Platonic year, that those times might come over again!
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William
There is a figure of the great Platonic year with a phenix on his hand on the reverse of a medal of Adrian.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
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