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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A plural of sphinx.

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  • noun Plural form of sphinx.

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Examples

  • We shiver in the flat, and on the steps of the Embankment, in the gungy puce of an evening, beneath the Needle and sphinges, leading down to the rocks and slippery rubble that pass for a beach under the wall-camera (broken, lens protruding), mobile (broken), fragment of a pipe with valve, bottles (some intact), and a barge of junks moored at the edge -

    Varieties of Unreligious Experience Conrad H. Roth 2008

  • We shiver on the steps of the Embankment, in the gungy puce of an evening, beneath the Needle and sphinges, leading down to the rocks and slippery rubble that pass for a beach under the wall-camera, mobile, Erotic Politics,

    Varieties of Unreligious Experience Conrad H. Roth 2008

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  • Plural of sphinx

    September 24, 2009

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    September 24, 2009

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    October 5, 2009