(n.) One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nowhere does sunsets like Libya, a golden seraphic light falling on the palms and beaches and sparkling sea, bringing pause even to the fighters.
(2) Her poem, The Seraph and the Zambesi, out of nearly 7000 entries, won the £250 first prize.
(3) On being surprised by a joy so astonishingly sweet, I assumed that it must be forbidden, and if by the light of day I'd come too close to leaning against the sun with seraphs swinging snowy hats, by nightfall I felt bound to check into the nearest cage, drunkenness being the one most conveniently at hand.
(4) But it was as a short-story writer that she first came to prominence at the very end of 1951, when she won the Observer short story competition for her surreal and, in places, richly poetic “The Seraph and the Zambesi”.
Seraphine
Definition:
(n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kate stood out against the grey morning haze in a fuchsia Mulberry coat, which she wore over a UK label Seraphine maternity dress.
(2) In a busy day for the Bulls, they received the rights to the Washington Wizards' Belarusian Vladimir Veremeenko in exchange for guard Kirk Hinrich and the draft rights of first-round pick Kevin Seraphin.
(3) To examine the remaining snRNP, we utilized our previously described genetic procedures (Seraphin and Rosbash, 1989) to prepare yeast extracts depleted of U5 snRNP.