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- adjective Of or pertaining to the Persian king
Xerxes .
Etymologies
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Xerxes + -an
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-- What has become of those shoals of pigeons, those herrings of the air, which used in the gloom and glory of a breezy autumnal day to darken the sun in their flight, like the discharge of the Xerxean arrows at Thermopylæ?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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