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n. - (Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus.

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  • The opera of "Eurydice" is short, the printed copy containing only fifty-eight pages, and the music is almost entirely recitative.
  • Just as Orpheus’s gaze back at Eurydice is a kind of forgetting,
  • They called Eurydice and she came, like a young guest unused to the darkness of the Underworld.
  • The play tells the story from the perspective of the young, doomed bride Eurydice, which is rare enough.
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