Prytty pyrrhique
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Pyrrha: Deucalion’s wife in Greek mythology → corresponds to Coba, Noah’s wife, in the Greek myth of the Flood → see chopwife three lines above
- la pyrrichie: (French) a dance → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
- Pyrrhic: a martial dance of ancient Greece → Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution 3:7:6: "So dies Sansculottism, the body of Sansculottism; or is changed. Its ragged Pythian Carmagnole-dance has transformed itself into a Pyrrhic, into a dance of Cabarus Balls"
- pyrrhic: a victory, but at too great of a cost
- pyrrhic: a metrical foot (short-short)
- pretty physique
- pretty peruke ('peruke' being archaic for 'wig', from the French perruque)
