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hyperborean

[hahy-per-bawr-ee-uhn, -bohr-, -buh-ree-] / ˌhaɪ pərˈbɔr i ən, -ˈboʊr-, -bəˈri- /


ADJECTIVE
northern
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Photograph: Apic/Getty In Barry Lopez's haunting, poetic book about the hyperborean realms, Arctic Dreams, there's a magnificent story about an Inuit family who are washed out to the seas on a calved iceberg.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013

The Teutons are a wintry race and often take their summer joys in a hard, hyperborean fashion.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

According to his mellow descriptions, the equator has a decided advantage over these dull, temperate, hyperborean regions.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

But this time it was in no hyperborean tempest that we were called forth, but when the very sweetest airs of June were blowing.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

It is not merely Western and among Indians, it is hyperborean and among Esquimaux.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian




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