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sphinx
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In 2006, Sphinx , a sculpture of the British fashion model Kate Moss in a complicated yoga position was unveiled by the controversial British sculptor Marc Quinn . The life-size sculpture is made of cast bronze , with a white-painted finish, and shows Moss ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sphinx \Sphinx\, n. [L., from Gr. sfi`gx, usually derived from sfi`ggein to bind tight or together, as if the Throttler.] In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mythology English) A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal (commonly a lion). 2 A person who keeps his/her thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic person. 3 ''Cynocephalus sphinx'', a kind of baboon. 4 A sphinx ...
Usage examples of sphinx.
She always placed the booties in a neat pile just in front of her nose, and then sat in sphinx position, looking superior.
They loaded it into wheeled wagons drawn by female centaurs, a manticora, and a small sphinx.
How could the Old Kingdom Egyptians, having taken the trouble to construct the huge Giza necropolis and the rest of the Memphite monuments, fail to make any mention of the Great Sphinx?
In 1979, for example, a proposal was made to the ARCE for a full-scale mapping survey involving the Great Sphinx and its enclosure in which use would be made of modern photogrammetric techniques to record every detail, crack, fissure, contour and outline of the monument.
CHAPTER 80 The Nut If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
Had the project code-named White Sphinx translated me to primogenial Pangea rather than to preadamite Africa?
The Sphinx was thought to be connected in some way with foreigners or with a foreign religion which dated from predynastic times.
Indeed we think it possible that the Sphinx and the three great Pyramids may offer knowledge of the genesis of civilization itself.
Giza necropolis, site of the Great Sphinx and the three great Pyramids of Egypt, is, by any standards, an extraordinary architectural and archaeological puzzle.
Sphinx Temple and the Valley Temple are concerned because their original constructed height was much lower than that of the Pyramids and they therefore could have been approached by relatively short 1-in-10 ramps.
Giza have quietly spawned a multimillion-dollar New Age industry that has embroiled itself deeply with mainstream Egyptological research into the Pyramids and the Sphinx.
This armed Sphinx represents the law of the Mystery, which keeps watch at the door of initiation, to repulse the Profane.
Sphinx, armed, represents the Magical Mystery expressed in the number seven, 728-u.
It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
London and the entire facade was refaced in white Italian marble, with ornamented stringcourses in porphyry, and tasteful and extremely elegant bronze sphinxes were placed at the corners of the roof.