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Thyrsus

noun
(pl. thyrsi)
1.
A dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose.  Synonym: thyrse.






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"Thyrsus" Quotes from Famous Books



... the eyes of Ariadne are fixed only on the smooth-faced god. See how he smiles back at her with that lascivious condescension which is all that a god's love can be for a mortal girl! In his hand he holds a long thyrsus. Behind him is borne aloft a chaplet of seven ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm

... sons? Black— 'Twas ever antique-black[115] I meant! How else Shall ye contrast my frieze to come beneath? The bas-relief in bronze ye promised me, Those Pans and Nymphs ye wot of, and perchance Some tripod, thyrsus, with a vase or so, The Saviour at his sermon on the mount, St. Praxed in a glory, and one Pan, And Moses with the tables ... but I know Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm? ...
— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... Those diminutive golden horns attached to the forehead, represent not fecundity merely, nor merely the crisp tossing of the waves of streams, but horns of offence. And our fingers must beware of the thyrsus, tossed about so wantonly by himself and his chorus. The pine-cone at its top does but cover a spear-point; and the thing is a weapon—the sharp spear of the hunter Zagreus—though hidden now by ...
— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater



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