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far-famed

[ fahr-feymd ]

adjective

  1. widely known; famous.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of far-famed1

First recorded in 1615–25
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In youth I sought a far-famed flower rare,

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He caught sight of him, drinking from the far-famed spring of Corinth, Pirene; and he drew gently near.

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When the floodwaters receded, they left behind a gift: a deep layer of silt that is largely responsible for the valley’s far-famed fertility.

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Only one ocean-going craft, the far-famed Argo, made it, sailing from Aieta; but she, too, would have crashed on the big rocks if Hera had not pulled her through, for love of Ieson, her captain.

And yet this last definition is no less informing and adequate than the far-famed formula of Matthew Arnold, which I forbear to repeat.

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