Acanthus

//əˈkæn.θəs//

Synonyms for "acanthus" (6 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (3)

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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Translations

33 translations across 21 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἄκανθος noun (plant)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • акант noun (ornament)
  • страшник noun (plant)

Catalan

1 entries
  • acant noun (ornament)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 老鼠簕 noun (plant)

Finnish

2 entries
  • akantti noun (plant)
  • akantti noun (ornament)

German

2 entries
  • Akanthus noun (plant)
  • Bärenklau noun (plant)

Greek

1 entries
  • άκανθα noun (plant)

Interlingua

1 entries
  • acantho noun (plant)

Irish

2 entries
  • acantas noun (plant)
  • duille acantais noun (ornament)

Italian

2 entries
  • acanto noun (plant)
  • acanto noun (ornament)

Malay

1 entries
  • akantus noun (plant)

Manx

1 entries
  • jialg noun (plant)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • akantusranke noun (ornament)

Persian

1 entries
  • کنگر noun (plant)

Polish

2 entries
  • akant noun (plant)
  • akant noun (ornament)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • acanto noun (plant)

Romagnol

1 entries
  • acânt noun (plant)

Romanian

2 entries
  • acantă noun (ornament)
  • acantă f or acant noun (plant)

Russian

3 entries
  • ака́нт noun (plant)
  • ака́нт noun (ornament)
  • медве́жья ла́па noun (plant)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • bodljikara noun (plant)
  • primog noun (plant)
  • tratorak noun (plant)

Spanish

2 entries
  • acanto noun (plant)
  • acanto noun (ornament)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought.

Source: tatoeba (6798347)

They praise the boy, his glowing looks divine, / the words he feigned, the royal gifts he brought, / the robe, the saffron veil with bright acanthus wrought.

Source: tatoeba (6800185)

The picture before which they paused represented one of those ruined fountains so common to Italy. Francesca gazed upon it as if it had been an old friend: many a time, beside such a one, with its curved and broken marble, had she wreathed the acanthus that hung around it, the green and trailing foliage so profuse in the South, into shapes even more fanciful than those which once suggested the Corinthian capital.

Source: wiktionary

It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window, one tympanum, and Suger's libelli.

Source: wiktionary

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