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(Greek mythology) the Muse of tragedy
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melpomene
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Melpomene \Mel*pom"e*ne\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, lit., the songstress, fr. ?, ?, to sing.] (Class. Myth.) The Muse of tragedy. (Astron.) The eighteenth asteroid.
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Melpomene was one of the Nine Muses in Greek mythology and a Greek female given name (popular variant: Melpo). Melpomene may also refer to: 18 Melpomene , a main belt asteroid. HMS Melpomene , seven ships of the Royal Navy. Melpomene (plant) , a genus of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Muse of tragedy, from Latin, from Greek Melpomene , literally "songstress," from melpein "to sing," of unknown origin.
Usage examples of melpomene.
The investments of the family of my Mistress, however, had prospered, while those of the family of the Lady Melpomene had languished.
Indeed, most of the members of the family of Lady Melpomene had left Vonda over the years.
The Lady Melpomene of Vonda, incidentally, I had heard, for such stories reach even the stables, had fared badly in the tharlarion races in Venna.
The Lady Melpomene of Vonda, impoverished, ruined, had little now to pride herself on save the name of her family and the splendor of her lineage.
Again I bent, this time pressing my lips to the slippers of the Lady Melpomene, too, kissing them.
Philebus of Venna went to the table of the Lady Melpomene and took the draft.
They were the fellows who had, long ago, captured me in an alley in Venna and carried me, bound in a slave sack, to the house of the Lady Melpomene, where she had used me for her pleasure.
The two men, each one holding an arm, held the Lady Melpomene so that she must face the Lady Florence.
The two men released the arms of the Lady Melpomene and stood back some feet and to the side.
The former Lady Melpomene of Vonda, now a nameless slave, collapsed to her belly, sobbing, on the scarlet tiles, chained by the neck to a slave ring.
She brought forth a pan of crusts and one of water, which she placed before Melpomene, on the floor.
And Melpomene, the collared slave, danced, entertaining the guests of her Mistress, the Lady Florence of Vonda.
The Lady Florence and Melpomene were of quite similar height and weight.
I sensed that they wished that it had been they, and not Melpomene, who had been struck to the furs for their raping.
Staring out across the treetops, Melpomene scanned the smaller hills and valleys below, teeming with life.