Calliiopean describes something that is piercingly loud.
Calliiopeano describe algo que es penetrantemente ruidoso.
| Front | calliopean \kuh-ly-uh-PEE-uhn\ |
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| Back | adjective Piercingly loud. [After calliope, a musical instrument having a series of steam whistles played by a keyboard. The instrument was named after Kalliope, the Muse of heroic poetry in Greek mythology, from Greek kalli- (beautiful) + ops (voice). Earliest documented use: 1855.] "Sunday we were doing yardwork when our ears perked to one of the season's unmistakable aural cues... the calliopean siren's song of the ice cream truck." |
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