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Definition of Gouras
1. goura [n] - See also: goura
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gouras
Literary usage of Gouras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Androniké: The Heroine of the Greek Revolution by Stephanos Th. Xenos (1897)
""You are wrong, gouras, in saying that I oppose your advancement. ... He sat down
on a stone and said to gouras: " We did not come here for quarrelling, ..."
2. The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833 by Walter Alison Phillips (1897)
"CHAPTER XH Reshid reduces West Hellas—He advances into Attica— Rule of gouras at
Athens—Capture of Athens by the Turks—Siege of the Acropolis—Karaiskakis ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"As they •were of one mind upon the matter, Odysseus was allowed to dispose of
the command of the garrison to his subordinate gouras, ho himself having been ..."
4. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest with by William Smith (1857)
"gouras was instructed by the government to keep the Turks at a distance from
Athens ; but, disregarding their orders, he filled the magazines of the ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The garrison of the Acropolis was hard pressed, and the death of gouras (October
i3th) would have ended all, had not His heroic wife taken ovar the command ..."
6. Greece, Ancient and Modern: Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute by Cornelius Conway Felton (1896)
"gouras was instructed by the government to keep the Turks at a distance from ...
gouras lost his life early in October. As he was going the rounds by night ..."
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