Crossword-Solution: EPHEMERA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ephemera | n. | A fever of one day's continuance only. |
| Ephemera | n. | A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. |
| Ephemera | pl. | of Ephemeron |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPHEMERA (5)
The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
Man, the latest of the ephemera, is pitifully a creature of temperature, strutting his brief day on the thermometer.
Whatever they were, they were not content, as the ephemera proved; and they were hungry for illusions as ever in the fourth century of the Church; but this was probably survival, and gave no hint of the future.
And the rest, truly, OUGHT to depart and vanish (as they are now doing); being mere ephemera; contemporary eaters, scramblers for provender, talkers of acceptable hearsay; and related merely to the butteries and wiggeries of their time, and not related to the Perennialities at all, as these Two were."--With more of the like sort from Sauerteig.
Human nature cannot afford to follow out these loud inanities; and, at a certain distance of time, is bound to forget them, as ephemera of no account in the general sum.
Quotes with EPHEMERA (3)
A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera")
I write our names on the page. What of it, if the paper will be burned? I write our names in the sand. What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves? I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted, but what of it? I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant.
both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows, footprints in the snow, so to speak. Then pencil scribbles on the stretcher, usually by the artist, usually a title or date. Next the stretcher itself. Pine or something. Wooden triangles in the corners so the picture can be tapped tighter when the canvas becomes loose. Nails in the wood securing the picture to the stretcher. Next, a canvas…
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1959–2023).