(a.) Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
(a.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
(n.) The Doric dialect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Linguistically, Gaelic has been brought to the point of extinction, Doric and Scots have been sidelined for years.
(2) Only 20 A380s were sold at Paris, to a leasing company, Doric.
(3) Railway locomotives of the 1830s were often decked out in neoclassical or gothic ornament designed to disguise their rude mechanical parts, while Britain's first mainline trunk railway, the London to Birmingham, concealed its terminus at Euston behind a giant Greek Doric portico.
(4) Speer's most successful piece of architectural theatre was the brilliant feat of announcing the Führer at Nürnberg by training hundreds of searchlight beams up into the sky, like Doric columns of light.
(5) Behind them stands a 1960s city of brutalist high-rises and office blocks, but many of these are undergoing an extraordinary redesign – with hollow Doric columns being affixed to slender concrete pillars.
(6) Ziggy played Stranraer, Scary Monsters (Super Neeps), Speyside Oddity, Black Tie White Pudding, The Spiders from Largs, Hunky Doric, Under Perthshire … The hits kept on coming.
(7) The Snowden bust still stood at Fort Greene Park’s Prison Ship Martyrs monument, atop a single Doric column.
Laconian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan.
(n.) An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Views stretch south to the tip of the Mani peninsula and the island of Kythira, east to the Laconian Gulf, west to the Messinian Gulf and north to Mount Taygetus, highest peak of the Peloponnese.