Carcas

[ kahr-kuhs ]

noun

1. one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of the Biblical king Ahasuerus.

Example Sentences

The movie features a pitched battle partially filmed with handheld cameras, a wolf attack on the ice, and a showdown at the castle of Carcas with a cast of thousands.

From Washington Post

Russian boy discovers woolly mammoth carcas Topics: Cloning, , , , Stem cells, Woolly Mammoth, An 11-year-old Russian boy stumbled across the 30,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, the New Scientist reported Thursday: Yevgeny Salinder found the 500-kilogram beast in the tundra of the Taymyr peninsula in northern Russia.

From Salon

The floor is traversed by digital flows of eminent architectural names, while the walls are covered with rapid-fire montages of global strife, courtesy of film-maker Carlos Carcas: street protests, Latin American slums, natural disasters, dispossessed people, all against a discordant soundtrack of crashes and shouts.

From The Guardian

She sleeps on the site of the old fort that witnessed her bravery; and Carcas, queen of Carcassone, who defended that city with such courage and resolution, when it was besieged by Charlemagne, that the Emperor permitted her to retain the sovereignty of the place, has scarcely higher claims to historical commemoration.

From Project Gutenberg

Marveling at a Maestro of Glass, Steel and Light “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?,” an admiring documentary about the British architect Norman Foster, by Norberto López Amado and Carlos Carcas, gives the viewer quite a lot to marvel at, which is, after all, the root meaning of the word “admire.”

From New York Times