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Kylix

noun
(pl. kylikes, kylixes)
1.
A shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece.  Synonym: cylix.






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"Kylix" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I have rather a mania for that sort of thing, myself. Wait. Let me show you." And he went into the inner cabin. When he came back he held up an alabaster cup. "A Greek kylix!" he cried. "Pure Greek! What an outline, eh? This is what keeps me from putting on my slippers! I have no doubt Alexander left it behind him. Perhaps Hephaistion drank out of it, or Nearchus, to celebrate his return from India. And ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various



Words linked to "Kylix" :   cup



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