Lucullus
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Lucullan adjective
Example Sentences
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There’s no better place to cap off a day of eating than with a visit to the outstanding Lucullus Bakery in Richmond Hill.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2016
Rarest item on the program was Sessions' 72-minute, one-act opera, The Trial of Lucullus, with a libretto originally written as a radio play by Germany's Bertolt Brecht.
From Time Magazine Archive
After entertainments worthy of Lucullus, all sat down to play off the first international chess match to be held in Russia since the fall of Tsardom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unrelievedly dissonant work has to do with the plea of the Roman general Lucullus, for admission to the Elysian fields before a jury of citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had withdrawn again to the gardens of Lucullus, and was there engaged in composing addresses of supplication to her husband, in which her pride and long-accustomed insolence still faintly struggled into her fears.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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