Near-synonyms: vinous, vinaceous, wine-blue, winelike
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Wine-dark
Synonyms for "wine-dark" (4 found)
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Translations
3 translations across 2 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- οἶνοψ noun (dark like wine)
German
2 entries- weindunkel noun (dark like wine)
- weinfarben noun (dark like wine)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
He had that type of countenance which dim tradition was already beginning to assign to the Son of Man—the perfectly oval face, the waved and wine-dark hair, the glowing complexion, the eyes whose depths seemed to be lighted by some holy spiritual flame within—of Him who had been fairer than the children of men.
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The Trojan War was probably real enough, but the myths of Aeneas crossing the wine-dark Mediterranean to lay the foundations of the Roman Empire in Italy, and Brutus's subsequent journey to fill Britain with descendants of the Trojans, are myths.
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