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Juno|ˈdʒuːnəʊ|
[L. Jūno (acc. Jūnōnem), in Latin mythology the wife of Jupiter; the goddess of marriage and child-birth.]
1. A woman resembling the goddess Juno in qualities ascribed to her; a woman of stately beauty; a jealous wife, etc.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 858 Here, many a Iuno, many a Pallas here..Catch many a gallant Lord. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. ii. i. (1676) 371 It is an ordinary thing for women in such cases to scratch the faces..of such as they suspect; as Henry the seconds importune Juno did by Rosamond at Woodstock. 1641Milton Areop. (Arb.) 41. No envious Juno sate cross-leg'd over the nativity of any mans intellectual off⁓spring. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 163 His be yon Juno of majestic size. 1859Reade Love me little II. i. 40 These Junones, severe in youthful beauty.
2. Astron. Name of the third of the asteroids.
1834Penny Cycl. II. 537/1, 1804. Harding discovers the planet Juno. 1868Lockyer Guillemin's Heavens (ed. 3) 214 The third planet discovered, Juno, which was supposed to be a third fragment of the hypothetical planet.
3. In plant-names: Juno's rose, the white Lily (Lilium candidum); Juno's tears, Vervain.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxxxv. §2. 581 Veruain is called..in English Iunos teares. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Juno's Rose, the Lilly.
4. Comb., as Juno-like adj. and adv.
1607Shakes. Cor. iv. ii. 53 Come, let's go..and lament as I do, In Anger, Iuno-like. 1896B. M. Croker Village Tales 101 Durali was tall, erect, and Juno-like.
Hence Junoesque |dʒuːnəʊˈɛsk| a., resembling Juno in stately beauty.
1888F. Hume Mad. Midas i. iii, A tall voluptuous-looking woman of what is called a Junoesque type. 1894Q. Rev. Jan. 143 Her beauty was of that Junoesque type which..requires time..to expand to its full flower. |