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sirensong en · NOUN

Etymology

From siren + song.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of siren song.
   alt of siren song
   • As we have seen, Stephen identifies with the poet-hero, and Fergus's call becomes a sirensong for his mother. 1974, Zack R. Bowe, Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce, page 296:
   • and admitted ruefully that the same bewitching sirensong had also lured him in the past 2007, Heath Lees, Mallarmé and Wagner: music and poetic language, page 110:
   • the mast to which Odysseus is securely fastened in order to resist the seductions of sirensong 1999, David C. Jacobs, The presocratics after Heidegger, page 102:

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