Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A simulacrum.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An image.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin simulācrum; see simulacrum.]

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Examples

  • (Ad Æn.ii. 632), stood the simulacre of a bearded Aphrodite with feminine body and costume, sceptered and mitred like a man.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Even it was decorated, garlanded with floating simulacre of Jastian flowers and plants.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Certes, ce désenchantement qui faisait très fin de siècle est une dégénérescence de pays riches où le "spectacle" a atteint les cimes du simulacre devant notre indifférence involontairement complice.

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Should she fail in what she now sought to effect, it was her ruthless purpose to scatter the miserable simulacre into its original elements.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • Should she fail in what she now sought to affect, it was her ruthless purpose to scatter the miserable simulacre into its original elements.

    Short Stories of Various Types Various

  • ONE day, however, something would have to be done, and, in order to be ready, Rochambeau kept his army busy with manœuvres, military exercises, sham warfare (“le simulacre de la petite guerre”), and the building of fortifications.

    Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. V 1916

  • _Je ne veux rien savoir, ni si les champ s fleurissent, Nice quil adviendra di., simulacre humain, Ni si ces vastes cieux eclaireront demain

    George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings 1910

  • (Ad Æn.ii. 632), stood the simulacre of a bearded Aphrodite with feminine body and costume, sceptered and mitred like a man.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Should she fail in what she now sought to effect, it was her ruthless purpose to scatter the miserable simulacre into its original elements.

    Feathertop: A Moralized Legend 1846

  • Should she fail in what she now sought to effect, it was her ruthless purpose to scatter the miserable simulacre into its original elements.

    Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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