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poliad nonce-wd.|ˈpɒlɪəd|
[f. Gr. πόλις city + -ad 1 b, after oread, etc.]
A city nymph.
1818Shelley Let. to Peacock 16 Aug., Pray, are you yet cured of your Nympholepsy? 'Tis a sweet disease: but one as obstinate and dangerous as any—even when the Nymph is a Poliad. 1887Dowden Life Shelley II. v. 188 note, This poem [in Leigh Hunt's ‘Foliage’], with its Oreads, Napeads, Limniads, Nepheliads, probably suggested to Shelley the word ‘Poliad’, a city nymph. |