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Definition of Coryphees
1. coryphee [n] - See also: coryphee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coryphees
Literary usage of Coryphees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Anglo-Russian Literary Society (1897)
"Three prefaces to the Sbornik were written by three coryphees of Russian ...
and as there are considerably more of them than of coryphees and novices, ..."
2. Outdoor Sketching: Four Talks Given Before the Art Institute of Chicago by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1915)
"... of some coryphees painted by Degas, now an old man over eighty years old—a
subject which he always loved and, indeed, which he has painted many times. ..."
3. How Paris Amuses Itself by Frank Berkeley Smith (1903)
"Down a narrow winding stairway leading from the dressing-rooms above, poured a
stream of other coryphees, principals, ballet girls and figurantes, ..."
4. The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on by Charles Adolphus Murray Dunmore (1893)
"Increase of speed on the part of the coryphees, who actually snap their fingers
as if dancing a reel. Sudden stoppage on the part of the music, ..."
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