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Ulysses|juːˈlɪsiːz, ˈjuːlɪsiːz|
[See Ulyssean a.]
Used as the type of a traveller or adventurer; occas. also, of a crafty and clever schemer.
1611Coryat Crudities 160 Famous Sir Iohn Mandeuil our English Vlysses. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. II. iii. xxii. 68 Klesmer was as versatile and fascinating as a young Ulysses. 1915J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers iv. 68, I had been dreaming of foreign parts..and here on a Glasgow stairhead I had found Ulysses himself. 1959T. H. White Godstone & Blackymor 172 That Ulysses, that circumnavigator, that..cheated husband. 1981P. Vansittart Death of Robin Hood ii. vii. 84 Richard [Lionheart]..was invisibly present, a resentful Ulysses marking his victims. |