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Boötes
[ boh-oh-teez ]
noun
- the Herdsman, a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Serpens, containing the bright star Arcturus.
Boötes
/ bəʊˈəʊtiːz /
noun
- a constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Ursa Major and containing the first magnitude star Arcturus
Boötes
/ bō-ō′tēz /
- A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Virgo and Corona Borealis. It contains the bright star Arcturus. Boötes (the Plowman or Herdsman) is one of the earliest recorded constellations.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Boötes1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Boötes1
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Example Sentences
A merchant with a forked beard, "a Flandrish beaver hat, and bootes clasped fair and fetisly."
Your lordshipp is learned as well as I (it is bootles & I should offer you the bootes), you knowing the Latine to expounde.
Charles's Wain lay inverted in the northern horizon; Bootes had driven his sparkling herd down the slope of the western sky.
But neither the virgin of Tegea, nor the sword-bearing Orion, 906 the companion of Bootes, will have to be beheld by thee.
Whereupon ye soul of ye humiliated Rag sinketh into hys bootes, and he retireth for ever under a perpetual extinguisher.
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