Crossword-Solution: POROS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POROS | anagram | POORS, PROSO, PSORO, SOPOR, SPOOR, SPORO |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with POROS (5)
Then there are many commoner sorts of stone ready to the builder's hand, especially the rather soft, brown limestones which the Greeks called by the general name of poros.
Thus the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, one of the two most important religious centers in the Greek world, was built of local poros.
Where poros or crude brick was used, it was coated over with a very fine, hard stucco, which gave a surface like that of marble.
The earliest pediment sculptures known were found on the Acropolis of Athens in the excavations of 1885-90 (see page 147) The most primitive of these is a low relief of soft poros (see page 78), representing Heracles slaying the many-headed hydra.
The material here is a harder sort of poros, and the figures are practically in the round, though on account of the connection with the background the work has to be classed as high relief.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1973).