thyrsus
noun
a thyrse.
thyrsi
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pluralof thyrsus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The thudding of their hooves shook the ground, and the clash of their timbrels and the rustling of their thyrsi filled the air.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
The walls of the room were appropriately enough decorated with capering bacchanals squeezing bunches of purple grapes and flourishing their thyrsi about in a very tipsy fashion.
From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Henry Vizetelly
Thus, above the great marble mantel,—carved with thyrsi, and supported by proud deep-bosomed caryatides,—you will find burly Sebastian Musgrave, "the Speaker," an all-overbearing man even on canvas.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
Also the border of vine-leaves and crossed thyrsi; though that, to be sure, is usual enough.
From The Westcotes by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In a patch of rusty-gum forest we found Acacia equisetifolia, and the dwarf Grevillea of the upper Lynd in blossom; the thyrsi of scarlet flowers of the latter were particularly beautiful.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
