epithet
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The writing being a purely ideographic form, an epitheton ornans, the question of how the ideographs are to be read is not of great moment.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
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