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Danaid

noun
1.
Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.  Synonym: danaid butterfly.



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... heroic resignation irritated Clerambault profoundly. The upper classes are charmed with it, no doubt, for they owe their existence to it,—but it makes a Danaid's sieve of the human race, and its age-long effort, since all its courage, its virtues, and its labours, are spent in learning how to die.... But when he looked at the fragment of a man before him, his heart was pierced with ...
— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain
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