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Etymology

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Ancient Greek Pylae, or Thermopylae, where the Amphictyonic council met + to assemble: compare French pylagore.

Noun

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pylagore (plural pylagores)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A deputy of a state at the Amphictyonic council.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pylagore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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