Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Venus de Milo.
If the work is not created of blood and nerves, if it is not the complete and poignant expression of a creature, I reject the work, be it the Vénus de Milo.
1991, Émile Zola, translated by Palomba Paves-Yashinsky and Jack Yashinsky, “Proudhon and Courbet”, in My Hatreds (Studies in French Literature; 12), Lewiston, N.Y.; […]: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 143 more examples
A tall woman with dazzling white skin passed by. She looked like the Vénus de Milo with severed arms restored. It hurt to look at her, that’s how beautiful she was.
1972, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Albert Todd, “Introduction: A Connoisseur of Love Knows Nothing of Love”, in From Desire to Desire, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1976, →ISBN, page xiiHands Like the Vénus de Milo. “I never prayed so much before,” said twenty-eight-year-old place kicker Garo Yepremian after his Miami Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins in the 1973 Super Bowl.
1986, Tim Braine, John Stravinsky, “Bad Plays”, in The Not-So-Great Moments in Sports, New York, N.Y.: Quill, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 95[T]he crowd around the Vénus seemed to me crestfallen, whether because of the great expanse of the Louvre or the gathering dusk, and it was this which prompted the passing thought that we – each of us – wear the same expressionless gaze as the Vénus de Milo.
2007, Viren Swami, The Missing Arms of Vénus de Milo: Reflections on the Science of Attractiveness, Brighton: Book Guild Publishing, →ISBN, page 3
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Vénus de Milo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/V%C3%A9nus%20de%20Milo
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