Tanagra

[ tan-uh-gruh, tuh-nag-ruh ]

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noun

a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Spartan victory over the Athenians 457 b.c.

Tanagra

/ ˈtænəɡrə /

a town in ancient Boeotia, famous for terracotta figurines of the same name, first discovered in its necropolis

The red tanagra shone like a glowing coal amid the dark forest.

She was very pretty and dainty, like the soft-tinted statuettes that came from Tanagra.

Surely, thought I, there never was a Tanagra figure to compare with hers.

He settled at Tanagra in Bœotia; where he lost all his companions, who were slain by a dragon.

Her head is swathed in folds of diaphanous white, through which the features are visible, like the veiled Tanagra.

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