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Prize in a case
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trophy
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n. 1 (context Roman antiquity English) tropæum#English. 2 An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement. 3 An object taken as a prize by a hunter or conqueror, especially ...
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A trophy is an architectural ornament representing a group of weapons, banners and armour. Similar decorative vertical arrangements of hunting accessories, musical instruments or other objects are also commonly referred to as trophies . The term comes from ...
Usage examples of trophy.
Their faithful general asserted the honor of the Roman arms, and often laid at their feet crowns of gold and barbaric trophies, the fruits of his numerous victories.
In this case, the skeletal remains of Sinanthropus could be considered as simple hunting trophies, attributable, as were the traces of fire and industry, to a true Man, whose remains have not yet been found.
Seven tripods never touched by fire, ten bars of gold, twenty burnished cauldrons, a dozen massive stallions, racers who earned me trophies with their speed.
Hugh dined with me, and after dinner I produced those trophies which the strongest-minded are unable to refrain from purchasing, when they are offered by an engaging burnoused ruffian in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings.
The confusion of the Orangemen was turned into a complete rout, and they fled, leaving their banners and other trophies in the hands of the mountainy men.
For unauthorized dealing in the trophies of certain scheduled wild game, as opposed to mere poaching or hunting, for buying and reselling and exporting, the maximum penalty will be twelve years at hard labour and a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars.
Yet the emulation of Trajan and Julian was awakened by the trophies of Alexander, and the sovereigns of Persia indulged the ambitious hope of restoring the empire of Cyrus.
Evan swallowed, imagining how easily it could have been him being sampled by the aliens, frozen for eternity like some kind of hunting trophy.
His arms were ribbed with the swazond, ritual trophy scars, of more than two hundred dead foes.
The trophy had hung there for so long that Sulu rarely thought about it anymore.
A stage was erected in the infield for televised presentation of the championship trophy.
He approached each strafing run as an opportunity to stun or trank one of the sculpers long enough to harvest a trophy.
Akarr sneered at him without responding, although he did holster his trank gun and replace his trophy knife.
For the grab-bag Emperor they suggested Alexander as much as Hannibal, the trophies of Egypt, the tricolor flying from Acre to Lisbon.
He had been looking at the trophies atop the chest, aglimmer with stolen light.