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"more halcyon", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most halcyon", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "halcyon (comparative more halcyon, superlative most halcyon)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "related": [ { "word": "Alcyone" } ], "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher." ], "links": [ [ "kingfisher", "kingfisher" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1787, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 30", "text": "Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero", "text": "Deep, halcyon repose.", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1919, H.P. 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