| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "BELPHOEBE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Belphoebe meant for Queen Elizabeth. She was sister of Amoret. Equally chaste, but of the Diana and Minerva type. Cold as an icicle, passionless, immovable. She is a white flower without perfume, and her only tender passion is that of chivalry. Like a moonbeam, she is light without warmth. You admire her as you admire a marble statue. (Spenser: Faerie Queene, book iii.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Wikipedic | Belphoebe (i. e. Beautiful Diana), a huntress in The Faerie Queene, the impersonation of Queen Elizabeth, conceived of, however, as a pure, high-spirited maiden, rather than a queen. (references) | ||
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