dromos
Americannoun
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dromoi
plural
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Archaeology. a passageway into an ancient subterranean tomb.
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a racetrack in ancient Greece.
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Etymology
Origin of dromos
First recorded in 1840–50, dromos is from the Greek word drómos a running, course, place for running
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There is always a way of bringing up a child in the way he should go,—though it be a gypsy one,—and drom comes from the Greek dromos, which is elegant and classical.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
Through the dromos they reached the first propylæum, then the second, the third, the fourth.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
The side Kenkenes approached sloped sharply from the dromos toward the river, and the rearmost spectators had small opportunity to behold the pageant.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
There were no door-keepers; and the travellers walked on, through the endless dromos.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
Strabo states that the bulls employed on these occasions were carefully trained for the purpose, and the encounters generally took place in the dromos, or avenue of approach to the temples.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
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