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Spirit a Parisian gets before feast
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undine
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various water spirits
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
female water spirit, 1821, from Modern Latin Undina (1650s), coined by Paracelsus ( "De Nymphis" ) in his alchemical system, from Latin unda "a wave, billow" (see water (n.1)). Popularized by German romance "Undine, eine Erzählung" (1811) by Baron F.H.C. ...
Wikipedia
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Undine is a 1916 American silent fantasy drama film which featured actress/athlete Ida Schnall in a water-themed story based upon the fairy tale Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque . The film was directed by Henry Otto and produced and distributed by ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A female water-sprite or nymph. 2 The elemental being of water.
Usage examples of undine.
The tarn, like the dark mysterious dwelling of an Undine, was spread out before them with the smoothness of glass, though untransparent, and shining beneath their eyes like a vast basin of the richest jet.
As I went out of the battle with all the signs of my strength still about me, Semiramis could have no doubts as to the reality of my success, and even the Undine was deceived when she came to wash me.
The undine called Etheria stared at Chiano with her flat golden eyes, and challenged him to deny his fear.
Lake Lorelei and the the River Undine, twisting and threading through the Frankenthal Valley to finally join a tributary of the Danube.
Nestled on a broad flat plateau below the foothills of the northern Alps was the Frankenthal, the Undine River winding through it, taking its source in the oval black mirror of Lake Lorelei.
These ironclads were accompanied by the large cruisers Friedrich Karl, Prinz Adalbert, Prinz Heinrich, Furst Bismarck, Viktoria Luise, Kaiserin Augusta, and the small cruisers Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Undine, Arcona, Frauenlob, and Medusa.
Walter had listened with a beating heart, now full of hope that he was to be Hildebrand to this Undine, now sick with the conviction that he was destined to fare no better than Sefton.
She herself asked the question imploring Paralis not to delay the time of her regeneration, even though the Undine were lacking, since she could very well bathe herself.
Semiramis had been handsome, but she was then what I am now, and without the Undine the operation would have failed.
Wildfolk gathered to listen, sylphs and gnomes, while in the stream undines rose up and clustered at the grassy bank.
But we will widen our search, and there are friends of fresh water, like the undines, that we can call upon the wide world over.
Her teeth, unlike those of undines, were white, pearly, and exactly like human teeth.
When the sun shone, undines rose from the water and frolicked around the prow.
I was also aware that the undines that live in the Lagoon have a great deal to do with the Strega mages.
Finally the oracle declared that I was to embrace Semiramis two days before the end of the ceremonies, after an Undine had purified us by bathing us in the room where we were.