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Euphrosyne

[ yoo-fros-uh-nee ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. one of the Graces.


Euphrosyne

/ juːˈfrɒzɪˌniː /

noun

  1. Greek myth one of the three Graces
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Euphrosyne1

< Greek, personification of euphrosýnē mirth, merriment
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Euphrosyne1

from Greek: mirth, merriment
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Example Sentences

Instead she heard her mother, Euphrosyne Stephanides, speaking in this very cocoonery years ago, elucidating the mysteries of silkworms—“To have good silk, you have to be pure,” she used to tell her daughter.

Daughters of Jupiter and Eurynome, these maidens, who bore the respective names of Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, longed to show their love for their new mistress.

No simile in oriental poetry could exaggerate the regularity and whiteness of her teeth; nor painter's dream of Euphrosyne exceed the arch vivacity of her smile.

He strengthened his title to the crown by a marriage with the last scion of the Isaurian house, the princess Euphrosyne, daughter of the blind Constantine VI.

But Euphrosyne was mounting guard over her young mistress as she always did, and Michael's anxious but cautious inquiries met with evasive answers, or passed unnoticed.

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