What's the difference between cocotte and cyprian?

Cocotte


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Cyprian


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to Cyprus.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.
  • (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "These were very decent men who had done more work than anybody in examining police killings," said Cyprian Nyamwamu, the executive director of the National Convention Executive Council, a non-governmental organisation advocating social and economic reform.
  • (2) A more moderate conclusion comes from the historian Tom Holland: “The likelihood that the biblical story records an actual event is fairly small.” Cyprian Broodbank, the Disney professor of archaeology at Cambridge University, wrote in his recent history of the Mediterranean that the exodus was “at best a refracted folk memory of earlier expulsions of Levantine people” following the reconquest of the Nile delta by the Egyptian king Ahmose around 1530BC.
  • (3) He would sometimes address letters direct to me on some occasion, such as when my Cousin King Cyprian died.

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