Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Mexico, any one of several species of juniper, especially Juniperus mexicana, a cypresslike tree yielding a pale yellow resin somewhat like sandarach.
- noun The Mexican ahuehuetl, or swamp-cypress, Taxodium Mexicanum. magnificent specimens of which grow at Chapultepec, near the city of Mexico.
- noun In Texas, the bald cypress, Taxodium distichum. See
Taxodium . - noun In Porto Rico, Magnolia splendens, also called
laurel sabino (probably on account of its aromatic fragrance), a beautiful tree resembling Talauma Plumieri, with odorous white flowers and laurel-like leaves used by the natives in flavoring food. - noun In pharmacy, the savin, Juniperus Sabina.
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- proper noun A female
given name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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After obediently killing one of her best friends for treason, Sabina is sent on a secret mission to infiltrate the very cult her friend was to have been in league with, led by a mage named Clovis.
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Long story, short: Sabina is a brooding assassin under the rule of her maternal grandmother, Lavinia, who is a queen of sorts.
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In Ancient Rome, he was Julius, who had an affair with Vestal Virgin Sabina, whose punishment was to be buried alive.
[REVIEW] M. J. Rose’s THE REINCARNATIONIST « Urban Fantasy Land 2008
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In Ancient Rome, he was Julius, who had an affair with Vestal Virgin Sabina, whose punishment was to be buried alive.
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Presently the one called Sabina turned to him and said:
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Presently the one called Sabina turned to him and said:
Five Tales John Galsworthy 1900
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I read the novel yearning for an erotic adventure with a woman to whom I will give the name Sabina as a tribute to one of fiction’s sexiest women, a fictional construct, indeed, of Kundera’s imagination, or rather the fictional construct of the “I” narrator, a writer, who narrates can we really call a pronoun “who”? the novel, perhaps a persona of Kundera himself.
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I read the novel yearning for an erotic adventure with a woman to whom I will give the name Sabina as a tribute to one of fiction’s sexiest women, a fictional construct, indeed, of Kundera’s imagination, or rather the fictional construct of the “I” narrator, a writer, who narrates can we really call a pronoun “who”? the novel, perhaps a persona of Kundera himself.
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I read the novel yearning for an erotic adventure with a woman to whom I will give the name Sabina as a tribute to one of fiction’s sexiest women, a fictional construct, indeed, of Kundera’s imagination, or rather the fictional construct of the “I” narrator, a writer, who narrates can we really call a pronoun “who”? the novel, perhaps a persona of Kundera himself.
100 Novels: The Unbearable Lightness of Being « Exile on Ninth Street 2009
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I have much more to say about Korça, like my new job (Sabina is a current volunteer who will be working there for 4 more months, she’s great, and it’s VERY helpful to have her explain everything to me).
Chris in Albania: 2005
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