Crossword clues for cypriote
cypriote
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cypriot \Cyp"ri*ot\, Cypriote \Cyp"ri*ote\(s?p"r?-?t), n. [F. Cypriot, Chypriot.] A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.
Syn: Cypriot, Cyprian.
Cypriot \Cyp"ri*ot\, Cypriote \Cyp"ri*ote\adj. of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; as, Cypriote monasteries.
Syn: Cyprian, Cypriot.
Usage examples of "cypriote".
He added that as no shipwrights could be found in London to repair it till after Christmas, the chapman, a Cypriote, who was in charge of the wine, was selling as much as he could in Southminster and to the houses about at a cheap rate, and delivering it by means of a wain that he had hired.
Thus the pair of them departed, well pleased with their purchases and the Cypriote Georgios, whom they found a very pleasant merchant.
A Cypriote does not mind them in his sheepskins, in which he will sleep even in the snow.
Here places were laid for six--Sir Andrew, his nephews, Rosamund, the chaplain, Matthew, who celebrated masses in the church and ate at the hall on feast-days, and the Cypriote merchant, Georgios himself.
Georgios it was, sure enough, wrapped in a great sheepskin cloak such as Cypriotes wear in winter, and seated on the head of one of his own barrels.
For the body of the Echidna, on the other hand, it is the so-called lattice-work pattern which represents the scale covering,--a pattern employed in vases for the most varied purposes, and found on the earliest Cypriote pottery.
They at length obtained a dear-bought victory, the Cypriote flies, and the castle is taken.