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Definition of Calypsoes
1. calypso [n] - See also: calypso
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calypsoes
Literary usage of Calypsoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution by Philip Morin Freneau (1907)
"... And hug and kiss them all the while, These fair calypsoes of the isle: Then
if what Sappho said, be true, Blest as the immortal gods are you. ..."
2. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"For so infinite are the allurements of these amorous calypsoes, that the fame of
them hath drawen many to Venice from some of the remotest parts of ..."
3. The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (1838)
"... that " these Circes, these calypsoes of the age, have equally and as easily
enslaved the most contemptible of ..."
4. Coryate's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Months Travels in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"For so infinite are the allurements of these amorous calypsoes, that the fame of
them hath drawen many to Venice from some of the remotest parts of ..."
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