Meanings (ES + gloss)
Esfinge
An ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids.
Esfinge
One of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who dwelt near the city of Thebes in Boeotia and terrorized travelers by posing riddles, killing those who failed to answer correctly; after Oedipus solved her riddle, she committed suicide out of frustration.
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
esfinge
A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.
[W]hatsoe'er of strange / Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, / Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, / Dark Æthiopia in her desert hills. / Conceals.
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