The Collaborative International Dictionary
Myrrhine \Myr"rhine\, a. Murrhine.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of murrhine English)
Wikipedia
A character from a comedic play by Aristophanes named ' Lysistrata'. Myrrhine is the wife of Kinesias and she deprives him of sexual intercourse as part of a major effort of women to stop the Peloponnesian war.
Category:Theatre characters
Usage examples of "myrrhine".
I was unaware of the extent to which these banker collectors of myrrhine vases differed from the true Israel.
In the centre of the room as they entered there rose slowly from the floor, to the sound of unseen minstrelsy, a table spread with all the viands which sense ever devoted to fancy, and vases of that lost Myrrhine fabric, so glowing in its colors, so transparent in its material, were crowned with the exotics of the East.
I was unaware of the extent to which these banker collectors of myrrhine vases differed from the true Israel.