cyclopean
see also: Cyclopean
Pronunciation
Cyclopean
Adjective
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see also: Cyclopean
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsaɪkləʊpi.ən/
cyclopean
- Suggestive of a cyclops.
- (masonry) Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
- Massive in stature.
- 2006, Fernando Pessoa, "Salutation to Walt Whitman," in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, edited and translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, pp. 198-9,
- You were cyclopean and muscular, not pretty, / Yet your attitude toward the world was feminine, / And for you each leaf of grass, each stone and each man was the Universe.
- See also quotation under cyclopian.
- You were cyclopean and muscular, not pretty, / Yet your attitude toward the world was feminine, / And for you each leaf of grass, each stone and each man was the Universe.
- 2006, Fernando Pessoa, "Salutation to Walt Whitman," in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, edited and translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, pp. 198-9,
- (image) Created by combining two images
- 2001, Sharan Strange, "Looking," in Ash, Boston: Beacon Press, p. 50,
- When he wrote the word, / the o's were joined / like eyeglass lenses without / a bridge. Cross-eyed, hypnotic, / they threatened to merge, / become Cyclopean. […]
- 2001, Sharan Strange, "Looking," in Ash, Boston: Beacon Press, p. 50,
Cyclopean
Adjective
cyclopean
- Suggestive of a Cyclops.
- (architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed.
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