Meaning of Strephon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Masculine name traditionally used for the male lover in pastoral poetry.
2. 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."”

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