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Calypso   /kəlˈɪpsˌoʊ/   Listen
Calypso

noun
1.
Rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf.  Synonyms: Calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper.
2.
(Greek mythology) the sea nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years.



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"Calypso" Quotes from Famous Books



... be thy will, then let us speed Hermes [Footnote: Her'-mes.] the messenger to the island of Calypso [Footnote: Ca-lyp'-so.], and let him declare to the goddess our purpose that Ulysses shall return to his home. And I will go to Ithaca, and stir up the spirit of his son Telemachus [Footnote: Te-lem'-a-chus.], ...
— The Story Of The Odyssey • The Rev. Alfred J. Church

... silence pass Calypso's isles,[10.B.] The sister tenants of the middle deep; There for the weary still a Haven smiles, Though the fair Goddess long hath ceased to weep, And o'er her cliffs a fruitless watch to keep For him who dared prefer a mortal bride: Here, too, his boy ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... found in waveless seas Calypso and Helena thrice-beautiful; And on the Lotus Eaters' shores, I drank ...
— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas

... out with a statement the next morning. He says the quake confirms his theory that the inside of the Earth is as hot as a Venutian calypso number, and that gases are being generated by the heat and that we haven't volcanoes enough on the surface ...
— Operation Earthworm • Joe Archibald

... compelled to content herself with a poor man, who had been driven by necessity to leave the Province of Estremadura in Spain. He, after wandering about the world for six or seven months, a modern Ulysses, found at last in the island of Luzon, hospitality, money, and a faded Calypso, his better half—but alas! a bitter half. He was known as the unhappy Tiburcio Espadana, and, although he was thirty-five years old and seemed even older, he was, however, younger than Dona Victorina, ...
— Friars and Filipinos - An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, - 'Noli Me Tangere.' • Jose Rizal


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