Crossword clues for chimeras
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. Chimeras. [L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
(Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. ``Dire chimeras and enchanted isles.''
--Milton.A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of chimera English)
Wikipedia
Chimeras (sub-titled A Child’s Adventures in the Realms of the Unreal) is an album of contemporary classical music by American composer John Zorn featuring a 12 part piece inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's atonal composition " Pierrot Lunaire". In 2010 the album was revised and re-recorded, with an additional "Postlude".
Usage examples of "chimeras".
Show us the line of partition between the world of chimeras and that of realities.
He summoned the most mobile creatures of the caverns: the large chippers, flying chimeras, small salamanders, and others.
Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.
The entire margins of the book were invaded by minuscule forms that generated one another, as if by natural expansion, from the terminal scrolls of the splendidly drawn letters: sea sirens, stags in flight, chimeras, armless human torsos that emerged like slugs from the very body of the verses.