pandphomemades wrote:
Gorgeous (After seeing the Columbia river gorge, I do not use the word lightly.)
Gorge, n. [F.
gorge, LL.
gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and
gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L.
gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss.]
Gorgeous, a. [OF.
gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF.
gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F.
gorge throat,
and
se pengorger to assume airs. Cf.
Gorge, n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
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. Finnegans Wake: (first page)
nor had
topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's
gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time
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. King Henry IV, Part i Act 4, Scene 1
VERNON:
All plumed like estridges that with the wind
. Baited like eagles having lately bathed;
.
Glittering in golden coats, like images;
. As full of spirit as the month of May,
. And
Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
. Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
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. Love's Labour's Lost Act 4, Scene 3
BIRON: like a rude and savage man of Inde,
. At the first opening of the
Gorgeous east,
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. The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1
PROSPERO: You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
. As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
. Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
. As I foretold you, were all spirits and
. Are melted into air, into thin air:
. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
.
The cloud-capp'd towers, the Gorgeous palaces,
. The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
. Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
. And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
. Leave not a
rack behind. We are such stuff
. As dreams are made on, and our little life
. Is rounded with a sleep.
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"The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above,
which we call the
rack, . . . pass without noise." - Francis Bacon.
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