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Callas   /kˈæləz/   Listen
Callas

noun
1.
Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).  Synonyms: Maria Callas, Maria Meneghini Callas.






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"Callas" Quotes from Famous Books



... tangled bushes as I passed Down beechen alleys beautiful and dim, Perhaps by some deep-shaded pool at last My feet would pause, where goldfish poise and swim, And snowy callas' velvet cups are massed Around the mossy, fern-encircled brim. Here, then, that magic summoning would cease, Or sound far off ...
— Poems • Alan Seeger

... offensive in North-Western Asia. He marched upon Cyzicus and was within a little of surprising it, obtaining from the lands and villas without the walls an immense booty. He forced Parmenio to raise the seige of Pitane; and when Callas, one of the Macedonian leaders, endeavored to improve the condition of things by meeting the Persian forces in the open field, he suffered a defeat and was compelled to throw ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia • George Rawlinson

... approached within two hundred paces of a Stanhopea, of the epidendrum odoratum, of the datura grandiflora, with its mantle of snow-white blossoms? You could never have passed near the pothos plant, the serbereae, and tabernamon taneae, the callas, eugenias, ocotas, and nictiginas?—you could never have ridden through a chapparal of acacias and mimosas—among orchids whose presence fills whole ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid



Words linked to "Callas" :   Maria Meneghini Callas, Maria Callas, coloratura soprano, coloratura



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