Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A son of King Priam of Troy, depicted as Cressida's lover in medieval romance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large swallow-tailed butterfly, Papilio troilus, common in the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large, handsome American butterfly (
Euphœades troilus , orPapilio troilus ). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings; -- also calledtroilus butterfly .
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Examples
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"The Song of Troilus," in the first book of _Troilus and Creseide_, is a paraphrase from one of the Sonnets of Petrarca:
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Troilus is a relatively minor character in that play, but the director decided to put him in as many scenes as she could find a dramatic excuse for putting him in.
Just what are they suspected of and did the archaeologists have a warrant to dig them up? 2009
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I'll even buy the beers. --- go to every game of the 1921 World Series or attend the opening of Picasso's first exhibit or go see my friend in Troilus and Cressida or Bob in Tiger at the Gates.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Troilus is a relatively minor character in that play, but the director decided to put him in as many scenes as she could find a dramatic excuse for putting him in.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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I'll even buy the beers. --- go to every game of the 1921 World Series or attend the opening of Picasso's first exhibit or go see my friend in Troilus and Cressida or Bob in Tiger at the Gates.
Just what are they suspected of and did the archaeologists have a warrant to dig them up? 2009
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It is the lust of a mother (not, say, an uncle) that so tortures Shakespeare's Hamlet ( "Frailty, thy name is woman"), a girl's sexual fickleness that takes out the hero in Troilus and Cressida, a queen's love for an ass that brings down the house in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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It is the lust of a mother (not, say, an uncle) that so tortures Shakespeare's Hamlet ( "Frailty, thy name is woman"), a girl's sexual fickleness that takes out the hero in Troilus and Cressida, a queen's love for an ass that brings down the house in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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This weirdness is something Barney presumably suffers from and Barney's assertion that the Troilus is the greatest work in English between Beowulf and The Faerie Qveene is one piece of evidence to suggest such attachment.
Archive 2008-09-01 Miglior acque 2008
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This weirdness is something Barney presumably suffers from and Barney's assertion that the Troilus is the greatest work in English between Beowulf and The Faerie Qveene is one piece of evidence to suggest such attachment.
Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Stephen Barney (Norton, 2006) Miglior acque 2008
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Henryson adds a canto to "Troilus" (below p. 507).
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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