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schœne
schœne
English
Noun
schœne (plural schœnes)
- Alternative form of schene
- 1894, A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, volume 7:
- Are we to measure our wisdom by the Persian Schœne, or by the cubits of a child, and to write so imperfectly as not to write at all but to copy the midday shadows, or lines which meet right in front of you, whose lengths are foreshortened and which show themselves in glimpses rather than plainly, being recognized only by certain of their extremities?