How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god?
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Arabesque
//ˌæɹ.əˈbɛsk//
Synonyms for "arabesque" (127 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (63)
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Translations
32 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- арабеск noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- арабеск noun ((music) ornate composition)
- арабеска noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- арабеска noun ((music) ornate composition)
Catalan
1 entries- arabesc noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Esperanto
1 entries- arabesko noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Finnish
1 entries- arabeski noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
French
2 entries- arabesque noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- arabesque noun ((music) ornate composition)
Gagauz
1 entries- arabesk noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Galician
1 entries- arabesco noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
German
2 entries- Arabeske noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- Arabeske noun ((music) ornate composition)
Greek
1 entries- αραβούργημα noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Hungarian
2 entries- arabeszk noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- arabeszk noun ((music) ornate composition)
Italian
1 entries- arabesco noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Japanese
1 entries- アラベスク noun ((music) ornate composition)
Macedonian
1 entries- арабеска noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Persian
1 entries- اسلیمی noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Polish
2 entries- arabeska noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- arabeska noun ((music) ornate composition)
Portuguese
1 entries- arabesco noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Romanian
1 entries- arabesc noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Russian
4 entries- арабе́ск noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- арабе́ск noun ((music) ornate composition)
- арабе́ска noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- арабе́ска noun ((music) ornate composition)
Spanish
1 entries- arabesco noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Turkish
2 entries- arabesk noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
- arabesk noun ((music) ornate composition)
Ukrainian
1 entries- арабе́ска noun (ornamental design used in Islamic Art)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
It was a sort of scene which Adam had beheld almost weekly for years; he knew by heart every arabesque flourish in the framed specimen of Bartle Massey’s handwriting which hung over the schoolmaster’s head, by way of keeping a lofty ideal before the minds of his pupils; […].
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The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”
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For a man who condemned worldly pleasures he ate with elegance. She loved to watch the arabesque of fingers and two forks.
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