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Meanings of Corinthian in English
Synonyms
Examples for "playboy"
Examples for "playboy"
1
My playboy days are over, but I still needed to be sexy.
2
The travails of the storied playboy prime minister never fail to captivate.
3
Her father, a playboy type, deserted them and never writes to Kate.
4
Trump, meanwhile, has gone from playboy to TV star to US president.
5
He was a professor, but he was kind of a playboy, too.
1
I had a certain man-about-town in my pocket, my dear.
2
But years before that, he had been the greatest man-about-town in Dawson City and Nome.
3
By 1965, he was a dashing, wealthy, connected man-about-town who was very popular with women.
4
The man-about-town shrugged his well-tailored shoulders.
5
At the time, Charles was 29 years old, a dashing man-about-town whose romantic conquests were well known in certain, aristo circles.
Usage of Corinthian in English
1
The list gained attention because of the Corinthian Colleges collapse last year.
2
UCD are two points ahead of Corinthian with a game in hand.
3
Tomorrow they will aim to take three points from Corinthian at Whitechurch.
4
On one side the carving is distinctly Corinthian; on another altogether lacking.
5
The modillions of a Corinthian cornice are but elaborated and embellished dentils.
6
Fifteen of the lofty columns with their Corinthian capitals are still standing.
7
Callimachus, a Corinthian architect, noticed the effect and put it into use.
8
And having thus rallied the Corinthian, he passed on with his army.
9
The single saguaro pillar bears a striking resemblance to a Corinthian column.
10
Here ran a colonnade of twelve red porphyry pillars, with Corinthian capitals.
11
At the southern end, there are two large towers with Corinthian pilasters.
12
Only ten of the eighteen Corinthian pillars of this temple now remain.
13
At the 16-hour mark, a Corinthian column had nothing on Mitros Papadapolous.
14
At that moment Drake was on his way to the Corinthian Club.
15
Good-night, young lady-rememberyou dine beneath the Corinthian roof, to-morrow, with Elizabeth.
16
Look at these statuettes, Beautrelet, at this Greek Venus, this Corinthian Apollo.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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