polyphloisbic

polyphloisbic

"Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?" Rupert Brooke, en route to the Bosporus, as quoted by William Manchester in his Churchill biography, The Last Lion, page 518.


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  • polyphloisbic — /pol i floisˈbik/, poluphloisboiotic /pol oo flois boi otˈik/ or polyphloesboean /pol i flēs bēˈən/ adjective (Gr polyphloisbos, from phloisbos din; the oi and oe from the genitive ending in Homer s phrase polyphloisboio thalassēs of the much… …   Useful english dictionary

  • poluphloisboiotic — polyphloisbic /pol i floisˈbik/, poluphloisboiotic /pol oo flois boi otˈik/ or polyphloesboean /pol i flēs bēˈən/ adjective (Gr polyphloisbos, from phloisbos din; the oi and oe from the genitive ending in Homer s phrase polyphloisboio thalassēs… …   Useful english dictionary

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