(n.) An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.
(n.) German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.
Example Sentences:
(1) And ostentatious gestures and lavish presentation, rather than the quality of his new records, are the means by which he has kept public interest bubbling in recent years: not a UK tour, but 21 nights at the O2 Arena, complete with after-hours shows at the IndigO2 nightclub; giving away his new albums free with newspapers; inviting journalists and fans to his Los Angeles home or to the Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis for parties to launch albums instead of submitting to the usual round of encounters with the press; launching his own nightclub in Las Vegas where he played twice weekly for six months; turning up in Lianne La Havas's front room to premiere Plectrum Electrum.
(2) Both Art Official Age and Plectrum Electrum are due to arrive on 29 September, and are available to order now Tracklist for Art Official Age: 1.
(3) Further re-releases are expected to follow, as well as a new studio album with Prince’s current band 3RDEYEGIRL, reportedly entitled Plectrum Electrum.
(4) The musician has been teasing us with details of his forthcoming Plectrum Electrum album with the band 3rd Eye Girl since January this year, when he hosted a press conference at nu-soul singer Lianne La Havas’ house .
(5) Nevertheless, there's still no sign of the new album, Plectrum Electrum, recorded with his current band, 3rdEyeGirl.
(6) The track is taken from his forthcoming album, Plectrum Electrum, which is set for a spring release.
(7) After Sunday night’s VMAs, the artist revealed that Plectrum Electrum will arrive in September alongside an entirely separate LP, Art Official Age.
(8) Here, Prince and his band played new songs from Plectrum Electrum, including the new single PretzelBodyLogic.
(9) Prince and backing band 3RDEYEGIRL had flown into London in the early hours of Tuesday at the start of a still-evolving string of dates in support of his upcoming album, Plectrum Electrum, which they had played to a small nightclub audience in New York on Sunday night.
(10) He's also been working with Rita Ora, and last year announced an album with his new all-female band 3rdEyeGirl called Plectrum Electrum, which is yet to get a release date – though he posted a new track, Da Bourgeoisie, in November.
(11) The Sailor's Hornpipe interpolation Dreamer More Than This (instrumental) Colonized Mind Guitar Plectrum Electrum Chaos And Disorder Full setlist, show 2 Raspberry Beret (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Funknroll (acoustic) Pretzelbodylogic (acoustic) Play That Funky Music .
(12) The shows in February – accompanied by an extensive interview in Mojo magazine – were expected to be promotion for the release of Prince's new album, Plectrum Electrum.
Stater
Definition:
(n.) One who states.
(n.) The principal gold coin of ancient Grece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.
Example Sentences:
(1) The important conjoint variables may well be the instruction giver (rule stater), any of their other systematic characteristics that have occasioned functional consequences for compliance in the past, and the topography of the response requested.
(2) There were, he said, "three competing tendencies within Israel's ruling coalition: annexationists (who want to formally take over the West Bank), status quo merchants (who wink at the notion of two states while expanding settlements), and Bantustan two-staters (who want the Palestinians to accept 50% of the West Bank as constituting a state)."
(3) Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship, a group formed in the wake of the scandal to oust board members who voted to fire Paterno, released a statement calling for Penn State officials to produce all records related to the insurance case “so that they may be evaluated fairly and fully in an environment of complete transparency.” Paterno had an unparalleled coaching career at Penn State but was fired in the months between Sandusky’s November 2011 arrest and his own death of lung cancer in January 2012.
(4) Paterno’s “Grand Experiment”, which placed emphasis on academics and proved athletes could also be top students, is a source of pride for Penn Staters who credit Paterno for giving the university an identity to be proud of.
(5) Whether it was the 2012 omnibus bill , or the highway and student loan funding bill of 2012 , outsiders such as blue-staters Michele Bachmann and Marco Rubio voted alongside southerner Rand Paul and westerner Mike Lee.
(6) Generalization of compliance across people, settings, and topography can occur; this generalization can extend to self-instruction, and can fail to extend to certain topographies ("Thou shalt not kill"), certain rule staters (nonpeers who say "Don't use drugs" when peers say it is fun), and certain settings ("Don't play with John in class").