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androsphinx
[ an-druh-sfingks ]
androsphinx
/ ˈæ²Ô»å°ùəˌ²õ´Úɪŋ°ì²õ /
noun
- a sphinx having the head of a man
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Origin of androsphinx1
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Sometimes the androsphinx has human hands in place of the lion's paws.
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He stood looking up at a pair of bronze griffins that crouched on the top of the rosewood bookcase, and the gas-light falling full on his face, showed his stern, massive features, which, in their granitic cast, reminded Edna of those Egyptian Androsphinx—vast, serene, changeless.
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