winged

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 298 words | Copyright

winged Winged Victory a winged statue of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, especially the Nike of Samothrace (c.200 bc) preserved in the Louvre in Paris.
winged words highly apposite or significant words (travelling swiftly as arrows to the mark); the phrase comes originally from Homer's Iliad.

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