Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A limestone quarried near Piræus: the common building stone of Athens. Previous to the occupation by the Persians in 480
b. c. all the monuments on the Acropolis were of this material. Many interesting remains, often charmingly colored, have been recovered.
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Examples
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Kittehs hoomin sune b poros tho, wen kitteh deplois pointee ends!
Don’t u ‘nice kitty’ me – u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Y se rompe en aullidos mortales por todos los poros de su tierra
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The ancient Greeks had a word (I said) to describe the condition of being at a loss: aporia, άπορία, from a poros, which means, roughly, to be without a passage or a way.
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Y se rompe en aullidos mortales por todos los poros de su tierra
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The ancient Greeks had a word to describe the condition of being at a loss: aporia, άπορία, from a poros, which means, roughly, to be without a passage or a way.
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Amor per oculos, nares, poros influens, &c. Mortales tum summopere fascinantur quando frequentissimo intuitu aciem dirigentes, &c. Ideo si quis nitore polleat oculorum,
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The ancient Greeks had a word I said to describe the condition of being at a loss: aporia, άπορία, from a poros, which means, roughly, to be without a passage or a way.
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The ancient Greeks had a word to describe the condition of being at a loss: aporia, άπορία, from a poros, which means, roughly, to be without a passage or a way.
Archive 2006-04-02 2006
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The ancient Greeks had a word to describe the condition of being at a loss: aporia, άπορία, from a poros, which means, roughly, to be without a passage or a way.
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Putatur enim fons ille immediatè per poros subterraneos eliquari de fonte paradisi terrestris, ita quòd nulla via decurrentium super terram fluentium vitietur.
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