(n.) A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(2) The risk is of a full-scale economic collapse that will result in Cyprus having a debt problem worse than that in Greece.
(3) On arriving in Cyprus, Mike was the only person present to celebrate leaving the clutches of Egypt’s national airline.
(4) We went on holiday to Cyprus and the plane got hit by lightning.
(5) 9.21am BST Cyprus to decide on gold sale soon Cyprus's finance minister has declared that the country will probably decide to start selling some of its gold reserves to help fund its bailout programme "in the coming months".
(6) He arrived in 1998 when a boat carrying asylum seekers bound for Italy foundered off the coast; he and others were rescued and brought to a second British sovereign base on Cyprus, Akrotiri.
(7) Here's the details: • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS FRENCH DEFICIT AT 4.1% OF GDP IN 2013, 3.8% IN 2014, 3.7% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS ITALIAN DEFICIT AT 3.0% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.7% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS SPANISH DEFICIT AT 6.8% OF GDP IN 2013, 5.9% IN 2014, 6.6% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS GREEK DEFICIT AT 13.5% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.0% IN 2014, 1.1% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS PORTUGUESE DEFICIT AT 5.9% OF GDP IN 2013, 4.0% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS CYPRUS DEFICIT AT 8.3% OF GDP IN 2013, 8.4% IN 2014, 6.3% IN 2015 Sony Kapoor of the ReDefine thinktank tweets that the forecasts show that European leaders should not be talking about the crisis being over, even though the risk of the euro breaking up has receded.
(8) Through the procedure of gene amplification combined with hybridization to synthetic 19 base pair (bp) oligonucleotide probes, it has been possible to identify nine different mutations in the DNA of 47 subjects from Turkey and Northern Cyprus with a beta-thalassemia homozygosity.
(9) The leader, a veteran communist, went into the discussions saying their focus would be the EU-IMF financial assistance Cyprus has sought as a result of its banking system’s heavy exposure to debt-stricken Greece.
(10) Without a rescue, president Nicos Anastasiades said Cyprus would default and threaten to unravel investor confidence in the eurozone.
(11) During Sunday on the journey from Cyprus towards Gaza, the trip had been progressing well, with spirits high among the pro-Palestinian activists, according to messages received from the flotilla at the Cyprus base of Free Gaza, one of the campaign groups behind the mission.
(12) He has a fixation with islands (Cyprus, Sicily, The Tempest 's nameless "isle").
(13) However, much of the gains followed a depreciation of the currency, which is not something Cyprus can follow while it remains inside the euro.
(14) The papers show the NSA pays half the costs of one of Britain's Cyprus-based surveillance systems, and that GCHQ has been worried that recent cuts in spending have been affecting its ability to serve up the right amount of quality intelligence to the US.
(15) • Cyprus will also sell around €400bn of its gold reserves ( see 4.12pm ).
(16) Bahrain, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and Lebanon are free of endemic malaria.
(17) Guenter Verheugen, the enlargement commissioner who helped Cyprus into the EU, told the European parliament yesterday he felt "disappointed" and "cheated" by the Greek-Cypriot government.
(18) He said: "Not bail-in as it was performed a couple of weeks ago in Cyprus, but bail-in as a component of addressing systemic risk ... is an absolutely necessary element."
(19) The UK government subsequently encouraged them to move out of the bases and into the neighbouring republic of Cyprus.
(20) This excludes Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus - all now in bailout programmes.
Paphian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.