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Medusa, for one
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gorgon
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., any of the three hideous sisters in Greek legend, whose look turned beholders to stone (Madusa was one of them), from Greek Gorgo (plural Gorgones ), from gorgos "terrible," of unknown origin. Transferred sense of "terrifyingly ugly person" is ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ What mystified her was how any firm could employ such a gorgon to promote their products.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Like a '''gorgon'''; very ugly or terrifying. n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. 2 An intimidating, ugly, or disgusting woman; anything hideous or ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gorgon is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Gorgon is also a member of the Royal Family of the Inhumans , a race of superpowered beings that inhabit the hidden city of Attilan .
Usage examples of gorgon.
Medusa the Gorgon, complete with a wig of genuine living snakelets that had the whole room screaming in terror every time he lowered his head and threatened to charge, and a flowing mass of draperies in Coan floss silk that showed the guests his biggest snake all too clearly.
And if he was, was he suggesting it about one overambitious gorgon with skewed priorities, or about a treacherous vein, you should forgive the term, running through all of SOF?
Gorgons and Hydras of the skies as interesting problems yet unsolved, as well as to consider that the belief in lunar influence is a fragment of a true system of natural philosophy which has become more and more debased in postdiluvian times.
Without conscious thought, he whipped a tiny arrow from the quiver and docked it, aimed it at the Gorgon, and released it in one, quick practiced motion, as though he carried all the marvelous bowmanship of his ancestors in his heart.
Gorgons and Chimaeras dire, might be expected to gloom out occasionally from the awful Fauna of an ever-generating world upon that one which was being born of it.
We have to find something to blame for our downfall, so we pick on the relationship with the Gorgons and try to ignore the weakness that must exist in us to make it necessary.
The hostile environment meant little to it, because like all the Gorgons it had already adapted to its surroundings.
He was counted a strong man among the men of Grath and had the reputation of resorting to the lusts of the Gorgons as seldom as possible.
And none seemed to realize that once they had been able to dominate the Gorgons without trouble.
The trouble was that all too often the perversions they learned from the Gorgons came to be practiced on their subject races, and no stops were pulled.
There are centaurs there, and all the creatures you would hear of only in myth - werebeasts and Harpies, gorgons and beasts of darkness.
But so also will the Vores and the gorgons, the hydras and the birds of death.
So she became the sister of the Gorgons, Stheino and Euryte the abhorred, the daughters of the Queen of the Sea.
We are the kindred of the Titans, and the Giants, and the Gorgons, and the ancient monsters of the deep.
Phoneland, where even the harpies still touched me tenderly and the gorgons looked at me with naked pity.