Venus
/ˈvinəs/ noun C2- Sexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.
- Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.
- Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.
Plural Venuses
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“No, for that very resemblance affrights me; I should have liked something more in the manner of the Venus of Milo or Capua; but this chase-loving Diana, continually surrounded by her nymphs, gives me a sort of alarm lest she should some day bring on me the fate of Actæon.”
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