Crossword-Solution: TAIRA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Taira | n. | Same as Tayra. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAIRA | anagram | AARTI, AIART, ARATI, ARIAT, ATARI, ATRIA, RAITA, RIATA, TIARA |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GAEAT
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TAIRA (5)
Control and oppression by military force, a conventional technique, is very common, with just a few examples being the ancient attempts to subjugate the Korean peninsula, the struggles between the Taira and Minamoto, the Warring States, the feudalist military government, Manchuria, the China Incident, and so on without limit.
These are his words: "The descendants of the gods who accompanied Ninigi-no-Mikoto [grandson of the Sun-goddess, [118] and supposed founder of the Imperial house,]--as well as the offspring of the successive Mikados, who entered the ranks of the subjects of the Mikados, with the names of Taira, Minamoto, and so forth,--have gradually increased and multiplied.
All the great clans of early Japanese history--such as the Fujiwara, the Taira, the Minamoto--were Kuge; and most of the great regents and shoguns of later history were either Kuge or descendants of Kuge.
But fortune turned at last in favour of the Minamoto; and at the famous sea-fight of Dan-no-ura, in 1185, the Taira were themselves exterminated.
Yet peace did not follow upon the battle of Dan-no-ura: the clan-wars initiated by the great struggle of the Minamoto and the Taira, continued, at irregular intervals, for five centuries more; and the nation remained disintegrated.
Quotes with TAIRA (1)
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1943–2007).