Rigil

NOUN
  1. brightest star in Centaurus; second nearest star to the sun
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How To Use Rigil In A Sentence

  • John Trigilio, Jr., PhD, ThD, president of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and co-author of Catholicism For Dummies, has written in that vein: Archive 2005-10-01
  • The basic equipment of an athlete consisted only of an unguent jar (aryballos) of oil and a scraping instrument (strigil) for anointing and cleaning himself, though for various events a competitor might need boxing thongs, jumping weights, discus, or javelin. The Ancient Olympics (1996)
  • After their competition the steamy athletes scraped off the oily mess with a strigil, which looks something like a sickle.
  • Along with the Ionic capital's circling volute and the repeating Greek key pattern, strigilation is one of the three most popular patterns of classical art. Forged in the Classical Tradition
  • Romans would sit and perspire, and their skin was scraped with a curved metal tool called a strigil.
  • A student would use a strigil or bronze scraper to remove the olive oil he had applied.
  • They are made by the same Belgian manufacturer, Frigilunch NV.
  • Their simultaneous comprehension of immortal hope and carnal funk - of Zeus and strigils - persists, through their art.
  • After this a slave would rub olive oil into the visitor's skin and then scrap it off with a strigil.
  • The strigillation, or curvilinear fluting, of the frieze immediately below the Pantheon-domed roof is a type of enrichment associated with classical sarcophagi.
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