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Word: lysistratan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...funniest spectacles to be seen hereabouts in a long time is taking place on the stage of the Wilbur these nights. Count Ory and a dozen knights, all disguised as nuns, gain entrance to a palace in which a countess and her female friends have retreated with Lysistratan resolves while their husbands are off on the Crusades. The men's lecherous aims are temporarily side-tracked when one of them discovers a well-stocked wine cellar; a drunken orgy ensues until the ladies suddenly come on the scene...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Count Ory | 11/20/1958 | See Source »

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