classic
/ˈklæsɪk/ noun B2- A perfect and/or early example of a particular style.
- An artistic work of lasting worth, such as a film or song; a work of enduring excellence.
- The author of such a work.
- A major, long-standing sporting event.
- Any of the British Classic Races, five long-standing Group 1 horse races run during the traditional flat racing season.
- One learned in the literature of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; a student of classical literature.
Plural classics
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“Hadn’t time,” said the Gryphon: “I went to the Classics master, though.
This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing,—a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.
Franz had already made seven or eight similar excursions to the Colosseum, while his less favored companion trod for the first time in his life the classic ground forming the monument of Flavius Vespasian; and, to his credit be it spoken, his mind, even amid the glib loquacity of the guides, was duly and deeply touched with awe and enthusiastic admiration of all he saw; and certainly no adequate notion of these stupendous ruins can be formed save by such as have visited them, and more especially by moonlight, at which time the vast proportions of the building appear twice as large when viewed by the mysterious beams of a southern moonlit sky, whose rays are sufficiently clear and vivid to light the horizon with a glow equal to the soft twilight of a western clime.
The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.
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