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Salome   /səlˈoʊmi/   Listen
Salome

noun
1.
Woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist.






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"Salome" Quotes from Famous Books



... little as I recognised in the smart, pleasant-looking black girl by his side, Salome, one of the maids I had seen at the cottage ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn

... distance were some women also, among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, the younger, and of Joses, and Salome, who had followed him and waited on him when he was in Galilee, and many other women who had come up with ...
— The Children's Bible • Henry A. Sherman

... ancient courtesans, Transformed morals in Massenet's opera, A sea-change in England, Who and what was Salome? Plot of the opera, Scenic and musical adornments, Performances in New ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... and tender Luini is seen almost at his best in 1355, Salome with the Baptist's head: other works by him are 1362, Silence, and 1353, a Holy Family. At the end of this section hangs 1169, Beltraffio's, Virgin of the Casio Family, esteemed by Vasari the painter's best production. We proceed to Section B, same wall, where ...
— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

... picture, daughter, with that open doorway behind you, with the firelight and candlelight, and—Ah! did you speak, Salome?" ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond



Words linked to "Salome" :   dancer, terpsichorean, professional dancer



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