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coloss, -osse arch.|kəʊˈlɒs, kə-|
Also 6–7 collosse.
[a. F. colosse:—L. coloss-us. The form coloss may have been a direct adaptation of the L. In 17th c. much more frequent than colossus.]
1. = colossus 1.
1561Hoby tr. Castiglioni's Covrtyer (1577) S iv a, The Colosses that were made in Rome. 1600Fairfax Tasso xi. xxvii, So stood at Rhodes the Coloss of the Sonne. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 82 Where..Nabuchadnezzar erected his golden Colosse. 1698Tutchin Whitehall in Fl. vii. 20 You'd think him a Collosse of Brass. 1751W. Halfpenny Designs Chinese Bridges i. 6 A Coloss fixed to the kerb of the Roof. 1821Joseph the Book-Man 13 His legs so widely he did toss, As vessels sail'd beneath Coloss.
2. In various transferred senses.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie 166 Shall this..Colosse peruse, And blast with stinking breath my budding Muse? 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 11 It is not then any great person or huge Collosse, that can triumph ouer a good cause. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 84 The whole Structure and Machin of this great Coloss [Common-wealth] must needs fall a-pieces. 1686Burnet Trav. iv. (1750) 187 A vast Piece of Plate,..or some Coloss of a Candlestick. |