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panther

(Encyclopedia) panther, name commonly applied to the leopard, especially to a black leopard. It is also used locally to designate various other cats including the jaguar and the puma. In animal…

The Pink

The Pink There was once upon a time a queen to whom God had given no children. Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter. Then an…

pink

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Deptford pink, Dianthus armeria pink, common name for some members of the Caryophyllaceae, a family of small herbs found chiefly in north temperate zones (especially the…

Brewer's: Pink

(A). The flower is so called because the edges of the petals are pinked or notched. (See below.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Pink of PerfectionPine-…

Black Panthers

(Encyclopedia) Black Panthers, U.S. African-American militant party, founded (1966) in Oakland, Calif., by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Originally aimed at armed self-defense against the local…

Brewer's: Panther

The Spotted Panther in Dryden's Hind and Panther means the Church of England full of the spots of error; whereas the Church of Rome is faultless as the milk-white hind The panther, sure…

Brewer's: Pink of Perfection

(The). The acme; the beau-ideal. Shakespeare has “the pink of courtsey” (Rome and Juliet, ii. 4); the pink of politerase. (Welsh, pwnc, a point, an acme our pink, to stab; pinking, cutting…

Pink Floyd Biography

Pink Floydrock bandBorn: 1964 A Grammy Award-winning British band known for merging progressive, ambient and blues influences into futuristic rock. Pink Floyd recordings include the music…

Bassett, Angela Evelyn

(Encyclopedia) Bassett, Angela Evelyn 1958- , American actress, b. New York, N.Y., Yale Univ. (B.A., 1980; M.F.A., 1983; D.F.A. (2018, hon.). Bassett…

antithesis

(Encyclopedia) antithesisantithesisăntĭthˈĭsĭs [key], a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. Parallelism…