Pyramus and Thisbe

[ pir-uh-muhs uhnd thiz-bee ]

plural noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. two young lovers of Babylon who, in defiance of their parents, held clandestine conversations through a crack in a wall. On believing Thisbe dead, Pyramus killed himself. When Thisbe discovered his body, she took her own life.

Pyramus and Thisbe

/ ˈθɪzbɪ; ˈpɪrəməs /

noun

1. (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same

Example Sentences

A good deal of the acting of the students within the play recalls the rude mechanicals in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” bumbling through the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe.

From Los Angeles Times

Members of the group Uprising of the Last Generation glued themselves to Nicolas Poussinthe’s 1651 painting “Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe” at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt on Wednesday.

From Seattle Times

I don’t mean that figuratively: The actor mimes his arrival in “Pyramus and Thisbe” as if it’s by motorcycle.

From Washington Post

The script itself is lost, save for a few pages from the Pyramus and Thisbe section.

From New York Times

Pyramus and Thisbe, he the most beautiful youth and she the loveliest maiden of all the East, lived in Babylon, the city of Queen Semiramis, in houses so close together that one wall was common to both.

From Literature