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固有名詞

Gelasma

1. Laughter personified.
   • 1900, The Quarterly Review, volume 192:

     Charles Lamb worshipped, like the Spartans in Edgar Poe's story, at the mysterious shrine of the god Gelasma.

   • 1910, Francis Thompson, A Renegade Poet:

     ...the temple to the reigning goddess Gelasma, which mocks the name of theatre...

   • 1950, Philip Hughes, edited by George Andrew Beck, The English Catholics, 1850-1950:

     So was a generation bred, more and more incapable of serious reading, of serious reflection, even of a primitive kind. Francis Thompson, a shrewd observer of his age, noted and shuddered at the growing popularity of the new goddess, Gelasma.