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Velarium   Listen
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Velarium  n.  (pl. velaria)  (Zool.) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.






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... bloom. How different it was with material things! Where had they passed to? Where was the great crocus-coloured robe, on which the gods fought against the giants, that had been worked by brown girls for the pleasure of Athena? Where, the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white gilt-reined steeds? He longed to see the curious table-napkins wrought for the Priest of the Sun, on ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde



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