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Cytherea en · PROPN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), via Latin Cytherea.

Meanings

  1. (Greek) The goddess Aphrodite.
    • Has Fashion iced that snowy breast / Where Cytherea's doves might rest, / Till sighs of Songland, sore distrest, / Its feelings may not harrow? 1876, “The Little Birds to Lesbia”, in Punch, volumes 69-70, page 218:
    • The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea. 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24: