anerithmon gelasma

noun

The "uncountable laughter" of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.

OriginAncient Greek ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα →
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Meanings

nounanerithmon gelasma (uncountable)
  1. poeticuncountableThe "uncountable laughter" of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.

    With a stomach half full and a cerebrum hollow As the tortoise-shell ere it was strung for Apollo, Under contract to raise anerithmon gelasma With rhymes so hard hunted they gasp with the asthma,

    1848, James Russell Lowell, Poems
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    […] give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over the rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.

    1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, Quarterly Review

    On one side lies the Indian Ocean, illimitable towrds the east, dimpled with its "anerithmon gelasama," and broken westward by a thin line of foam, creaming upon the whitest and finest of sand, the detritus of coralline and madrepore.

    1859, Richard F. Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἀνήριθμον γέλασμα
  2. Englishanerithmon gelasma

From Ancient Greek ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα (anḗrithmon gélasma), from Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound (90).

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