Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ornament on ecclesiastical vestments resembling the Greek capital gamma (
Γ ) in shape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See
fylfot .
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- noun A
swastika .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stergos touched the golden gammadion amulet of his order hanging at his breast and returned to the inner chamber.
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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“Take off your own gammadion and replace it with this, or we will slay you as you stand there.”
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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"His Eminence has a gold gammadion set with gems," Maytera Mint confided.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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Remora had produced his gammadion; Maytera Mint laid her hand upon it.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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He held up the gammadion he wore; it was of plain iron.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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With an arm of his gammadion, Incus removed the soldier's skull plate.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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First, Pas's gammadion: "_Great Pas, Designer and Creator of the Whorl, Lord Guardian of the Aureate Path, we_ --"
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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As Silk stared, he fished a gammadion blazing with gems from beneath his threadbare brown tunic.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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As Silk stared, he fished a gammadion blazing with gems from beneath his threadbare brown tunic.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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He took the gammadion from about his neck and held it up for Auk's inspection.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
sionnach commented on the word gammadion
Another word for the swastika or fylfot, also know as the crux gammata or tetraskelion.
Because it's made up of four capital gammas.
October 28, 2007