Taínaron

[ ten-uh-ron, -rawn ]

noun

1. Cape, a cape in the Ionian Sea, S Greece, at the S tip of the Peloponnesus.

Taínaron

/ ˈtɛnarɔn /

noun

1. a transliteration of the Modern Greek name for (Cape) Matapan

Example Sentences

In the short, lyrical story “Tainaron,” another unnamed narrator wanders through the eponymous city, which is populated by insects.

From The New Yorker

The narrator is guided by a friend, whom she knows as Longhorn, and as she encounters the city’s various denizens, she begins to reminisce about her life before she came to Tainaron.

From The New Yorker

This sense of mingled strangeness and recognition reverberates through all of Krohn's work, most clearly in "Tainaron: Mail From Another City."

From Los Angeles Times

Told that there is no crematorium in Tainaron, she insists on knowing what happens to the rest of the bodies.

From Los Angeles Times

He journeyed to the cave Tainaron, which was an entrance to the Underworld.

From Project Gutenberg