Meaning of Strephon | Babel Free
Definitions
- Masculine name traditionally used for the male lover in pastoral poetry.
- A pastoral male lover.
Examples
“To see her from her pillow rise, / All reeking in a cloudy steam, / Crack'd lips, foul teeth, and gummy eyes, / Poor Strephon! how would he blaspheme!”
“As when two doves, or two wood-pigeons, or as when Strephon and Phyllis (for that comes nearest to the mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary grove, to enjoy the delightful conversation of Love[…]”
“[…] those palmy days of pastoral revelry;—when every lover was a Damon or a Strephon, and his beloved a Delia or a Celia.”
“I am still sick with his sentimentality of a Strephon. He is a flippant coxcomb.”
“All their tunes were gay and lively ones, and the younger men moved their feet to the music, while a Strephon at the lower end of the lists seized upon a blooming Chloe, and the two began to dance "as if," quoth the Colonel, "the musicians were so many tarantula doctors."”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.