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calliope
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A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or more recently compressed air , through large whistles —originally locomotive whistles. A calliope is typically very loud. Even some ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Calliope \Cal*li"o*pe\ (k[a^]l*l[imac]"[-o]*p[-e]), n. [L. Calliope, Gr. Kallio`ph, lit, the beautiful-voiced; pref. kalli- (from kalo`s beautiful) + 'o`ps, 'opo`s, voice.] (Class. Myth.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; ...
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n. A musical organ, consisting of steam whistles played with a keyboard. Often used with merry-go-rounds.
Usage examples of calliope.
Sister Terpsichore, lovely Erato, Polymnia, likewise Blessed Urania, also Calliope, first of the Muses.
Detroit like the Wild Boy of Aveyron, was me, Calliope Stephanides, age fourteen.
Calliope was feeling, watching the Charm Bracelets undress in steamy light.
Past the Charm Bracelets, through the Kilt Pins, deeper into the locker room, Calliope limped.
At the end of this wounded, dishonest season, as the first crocuses appeared, returning from their winter in the underworld, Calliope Stephanides, who also felt something stirring in the soil of her being, found herself reading the classics.
For that spring, while the crocuses bloomed, while the headmistress checked on the daffodil bulbs in the flower beds, Calliope, too, felt something budding.
There he was, a famous sexologist, a guest onDick Cavett , a regular contributor toPlayboy , and suddenly on his doorstep, arriving out of the woods of Detroit like the Wild Boy of Aveyron, was me, Calliope Stephanides, age fourteen.
When Calliope surfaces, she does so like a childhood speech impediment.
After all, neither Cal nor Calliope could have come into existence without what happened next.
Baby pictures of the infant Calliope show a variety of features on the freakish side.
Still pretty, Calliope soon finds herself the shortest girl in the room.
While college students marched against the war, Calliope protested against hair clippers.
No, Calliope was not surprised by the appearance of a shadow above her upper lip.
With Nixonian cunning, Calliope unwrapped and flushed away a flotilla of unused Tampax.
Dressed not in a diaphanous robe but a pair of overalls, Calliope began to feel very funny indeed.