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- proper noun
Aeolis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC
Etymologies
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Aeolia is a multidisciplinary collaboration headed by Philip Breedon, Amanda Briggs-Goode, and Sarah Kettley at Nottingham Trent University.
Aeolia: Knitwear Incorporates Stretch Sensor Technology 2010
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In addition to utilizing her technique, Aeolia incorporates embroidery work by Tina Downes, weaving by Nigel Marshall, and garment fitting by Karen Harrigan.
Aeolia: Knitwear Incorporates Stretch Sensor Technology 2010
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The Aeolia team will be taking its cello garment to the Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2010 Conference at the Media Lab, MIT later this week.
Aeolia: Knitwear Incorporates Stretch Sensor Technology 2010
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Pharnouchus to Aeolia and Phrygia by the Hellespont.
Cyropaedia 2007
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Why not in Aeolia in old time likewise burning for certaine daies in the midst of the sea?
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Why not in Aeolia in old time likewise burning for certaine daies in the midst of the sea?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Pythodorus (for the game was worth the hunting for such as were thankful to make money by any means, the king of Persia having offered by public proclamation two hundred talents to him that should take him), he fled to Aegae, a small city of the Aeolians, where no one knew him but only his host Nicogenes, who was the richest man in Aeolia, and well known to the great men of Inner
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Aeolia, the home of storm-clouds, the land laden with furious southern gales.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Why should I recall the fleets burned on the coast of Eryx? why the king of storms, and the raging winds roused from Aeolia, or Iris driven down the clouds?
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Alcaeus were natives of Lesbos in Aeolia, and wrote in the Aeolic dialect
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