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Cestus   Listen
noun
Cestus  n.  
1.
(Antiq.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.





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"Cestus" Quotes from Famous Books



... affections nobly fixed, And impulse sprung from due degrees Of sense and spirit sweetly mixed. Her modesty, her chiefest grace, The cestus clasping Venus' side, How potent to deject the face Of him who ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... Venus shone upon him, beautiful as none can ever hope to be. If she had come, unnamed, as any country maid, her loveliness would have dazzled him like sea-foam in the sun; but she was girt with her magical Cestus, a spell of beauty that no one ...
— Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew • Josephine Preston Peabody
... can they put off this cestus with which the least attractive of them puts on some of Venus's beauty? Have they sentiment? and can they discard so true a type of their tender power that its mere lengthening ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various


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