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What does Alcyone mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) One of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
  2. (Greek) Daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx.
  3. (astronomy) One of the stars of the Pleiades star cluster, named after the mythical character.
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The Alcyone dessert wine based on Tannat is an incredible wine for these types of chocolate.
It is true that it was totally against her own wish that Alcyone took so active a part in the gay world.
The transformation of Ceyx and Alcyone into sea-gulls gives the poet an opportunity to tell of and praise conjugal fidelity.
Alcyone never raised her head, but bent over her child, whom she carried in her arms.
Alcyone from the first disliked the idea of the ball, and all the rampant merriment connected with it.
One of the medium sized worlds that revolve around Alcyone sustains the shortest lived human beings of our universe.

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