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Definition of: pyrrhie

(pirik) adjective
In Greek antiquity, pertaining to a martial dance in which the movements necessary to assail and avoid an enemy were imitated.
noun The pyrrhic dance.
[<L pyrrhicius <Gk. pyrrhichios <pyrrhichē a war–dance <Pyrrhichos Pyrrhichus, a Greek said to have invented it]

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