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Meaning of pygian | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
/ˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/

Definitions

Pertaining to or resembling buttocks.

rare

Examples

“[...] and the terrible conviction forced itself upon my mind, that progress for me in this path there was none, until my executioner should have turned my pygian epidermis into a road-map, and have engraved all my stopping places indelibly ...”
“Pygian Mysteries Eumolpus did not hesitate to invite the girl to the pygian mysteries. He asked her to sit down on the good part recommended to her (that is, on himself, to whose goodness her mother had recommended her daughter).”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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