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Cytherian
Cytherian
English
Adjective
Cytherian (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of Cytherean
- 1702, Sir Roger L’Estrange (tr.), The Viſions of Dom Franciſco de Quevedo-Villegas, “The First Viſion of the Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſest”, 21:
- Beauties there are ſcant, // For they do Gallants never want, // To lay their longing Appetites, // Who, wounded in Cytherian Fights, // Do leave off their delicious ſport, // And to Repentance moſt reſort.
- 1702, Sir Roger L’Estrange (tr.), The Viſions of Dom Franciſco de Quevedo-Villegas, “The First Viſion of the Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſest”, 21: