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Definition of cyprus:
- A thin, transparent, black stuff.
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She appears to us in a sort of rosy dimness, through which she looms as formidable as she is beautiful, and gazing with " gentle eyes and unmoved smiles," " Such as in Cyprus, the fair blossomed isle, When on the altar in the summer night They pile the roses up for her delight, Men see within their hearts."
- "Views and Reviews", Henry James. -
Arcadius banished him to Cyprus, but the inexorable Gainas was not contented with his rivalâââ‰â¢ s removal; he had Eutropius brought back to Constantinople and beheaded.
- "The Byzantine Empire", Charles William Chadwick Oman. -
To Cleopatra's realm Antony added Syria, Lydia, and Cyprus.
- "Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern", Edgar Saltus.