phrygian
IPA: frˈɪdʒiʌn
Root Word: Phrygian
noun
- A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
- A Montanist.
- The language of the Phrygian people.
- (music) Phrygian mode
adjective
- Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
- Written or spoken in the Phrygian language.
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Examples of "phrygian" in Sentences
- "Is that all?" said the man with the phrygian cap.
- July 17, 2006 dressed in tricolour and phrygian cap
- + "And they went through the Phrygian and Galatian region" (ten phrygian kai Galatiken choran);
- Seeing a phrygian cap upon his head, a cry escaped her: -- "Ah! it is you who have betrayed me!"
- These words (ten phrygian kai Galatiken choran) are variously interpreted, according as we take them to mean the
- The French Patriot, in red phrygian nightcap of Liberty, christens his poor little red infant Cato, -- Censor, or else of Utica.
- The smooth, picturebook slope had become jagged and bruised while the regular, evenlyrounded apex had turned into a sort of phrygian cap with its pinnacle woundedly askew.
- Never daring to do anything else? so using the phrygian major usually found in eastern music based riff for faceless man in the sitar type tuning wouldnt be trying something a little different?
- There was one -- he of the injured arm -- resplendent in a redingote of crimson velvet, whilst he of the limp supported himself upon a gold-headed cane of ebony, which was in ludicrous discord with the tattered blue coat, the phrygian cap, and the toes that peeped through his broken boots.
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