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Pierides

[ pahy-er-i-deez ]

plural noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. the Muses.
  2. nine Thessalian maidens who challenged the Muses to a singing contest, lost, and were changed into magpies for insulting the victors.


Pierides

/ ±è²¹ÉªËˆÉªÉ™°ùɪˌ»å¾±Ë³ú /

plural noun

  1. the Muses See Muse
  2. nine maidens of Thessaly, who were defeated in a singing contest by the Muses and turned into magpies for their effrontery
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“Thanks to the heavy engagement of the United Nations secretary general the deadlock has been broken,†Kyriakos Pierides, a political commentator, told the Guardian from Nicosia, the island’s partitioned capital.

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Mr Crowther highlighted the case of Andreas Pierides, who was arrested earlier this year after another passenger on his train saw him reading material which appeared to include bomb-making instructions.

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Police found the box of flares in Pierides' luggage after arresting him as he was about to board a flight.

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Pierides was returning to Cyprus after finishing the first year of his degree when he was stopped.

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She was so concerned at what she saw that she took photographs of Pierides and passed them to police, the court heard.

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