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Titania

noun

A white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability. Synonyms: titanic oxide, titanium dioxide, titanium oxide.

(Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore.

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"Titania" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Well, Titania might have done worse. But how is it that the donkey has come to be ...

— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

... only the most perverse could hesitate to admit, that there was at first sight an obvious connection between the poison-flower—"purple from love's wound"—squeezed by Oberon into the eyes of the sleeping Titania and the poison rubbed by Vindice upon the skull of the murdered Gloriana. No student of Ulrici's invaluable work would think this a far-fetched reference. That eminent critic had verified the meaning and detected the allusion underlying many a passage of Shakespeare ...

— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... out of the bill except during the run of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," when, through an unfortunate accident, I broke my toe. I was playing Puck, my second part on any stage, and had come up through a trap at the end of the last act to give the final speech. My sister Kate was playing Titania that night as understudy to Carlotta Leclercq. Up I came—but not quite up, for the man shut the trapdoor too soon and caught my toe. I screamed. Kate rushed to me and banged her foot on the stage, but the man only closed the trap ...

— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry

... that in the Fairy mythology Puck, or Hobgoblin, was the trusty servant of Oberon, and always employed to watch or detect the intrigues of Queen Mab, called by Shakespeare Titania. For in Drayton's Nynphidia, the same fairies are engaged in the sane business. Mab has an amour with Pigwiggen; Oberon being jealous, sends Hobgoblin to catch them, and one of Mab's nymphs ...

— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson

... head scornfully. "Oh, dear, no," she answered. "It is only that I have to live with her now, while I am under the enchantment. Some day, when the wicked spell is broken, I shall go away, perhaps to a wonderful castle. My name is Titania. I think it means that I am the ...

— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers

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