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Orphean   Listen
adjective
Orphean  adj.  Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Orphean" Quotes from Famous Books



... Channel, and have not crossed it; with the exception of one colony of Machaon in the Cambridgeshire fens. I could talk long about a similar phenomenon in the case of our migratory and singing birds: how many exquisite species—notably those two glorious songsters, the Orphean Warbler and Hippolais, which delight our ears everywhere on the other side of the Channel—follow our nightingales, blackcaps, and warblers northward every spring almost to the Straits of Dover: but dare not cross, simply because they have been, as it were, created since ...
— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley



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