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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Pompeii . - noun An inhabitant of
Pompeii .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Painted in Sep 1865, one of the earliest works of his 'Pompeiian' period of 1865 -1870 in which he recreated scenes from antiquity.
Archive 2008-11-01 Hermes 2008
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No one might use other than cerulean blue, if he employed blue at all; no other red than the tone popularly known as "Pompeiian" has been admitted in the scheme.
The Jewel City Ben Macomber
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We can stand in an American museum and focus on a fragment of an ancient Roman wall painting without giving much thought to its life in a Pompeiian villa more than 2,000 years previously.
Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011
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Some of the sites seemed abandoned in a hurry, as though disaster struck mid-day, Pompeiian-style, leaving dusty closets still filled with clothes, kitchens fully stocked, the grand concert halls had suddenly emptied, laboratories appear to be deserted in the midst of experiments.
Kiša Lala: Detroit - The Ruins Of An Empire: A Conversation With Photographers Marchand And Meffre Kiša Lala 2011
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Some of the sites seemed abandoned in a hurry, as though disaster struck mid-day, Pompeiian-style, leaving dusty closets still filled with clothes, kitchens fully stocked, the grand concert halls had suddenly emptied, laboratories appear to be deserted in the midst of experiments.
Kiša Lala: Detroit - The Ruins Of An Empire: A Conversation With Photographers Marchand And Meffre Kiša Lala 2011
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Soane responded with a personal, intensely original style, which absorbed gothic, Pompeiian and other influences.
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We can stand in an American museum and focus on a fragment of an ancient Roman wall painting without giving much thought to its life in a Pompeiian villa more than 2,000 years previously.
Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011
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Openly, however, he's arranging games against champions from Pompeii, with Spartacus taking on the Pompeiian master of disaster Pericles.
SPARTACUS: episode 11 hradzka 2010
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If it weren't for the thick layer of Pompeiian ash at my feet as I walked from my car to my office in San Diego's South Bay, I could live my life oblivious to the mass disaster around me, perhaps just wondering why the air was a little funny.
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I would sit underneath the jacaranda gazing at Danielle and her Mycenean golden hair, waiting for Alexander Cambitoglou to enlighten us on the techniques behind red figure vases, or Jean-Paul Descoeudres to blow my mind with his readings of the floor plans of Pompeiian villas.
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