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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On each side of the arch other girls stood by threes, while a row of six was arranged across the gate of the arch with thyrsi in their hands.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston
And of the pillars four were made to resemble palm-trees, and they had in the centre a representation of thyrsi.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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
A pink house with green shutters, half-hidden amid the sombre foliage, appears at the end of an alley of lilacs, "which sway in the spring under the weight of their balmy thyrsi."
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall
