Adamas
- proper noun
- Tourists often visit Adamas for its stunning beaches and charming atmosphere.
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Adamas offers a glimpse of traditional Greek life with its quaint streets and local cuisine.
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Adamas.
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Adamas dwells indifferently to human worlds and fiery futurity on its placid summit.
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Also, there is one called Adamas, which the English have named Diamond, with a very sparkling color and impossible to crush, that is rumored to grow in Cyprus or Arabia, and being bathed in the blood of a goat, it will fracture -- from what inadequacy?
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I can't wait for my yarns to be shipped to me, so I can start knitting the Adamas Shawl (download this beautiful pattern from her website) and start my lace shawl design odyssey.
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The ferry to Adamas departs from Piraeus every morning.
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Etymology
Adamas gets its name from an old Greek word adamas meaning 'unbreakable' or 'hard', the same root as the English words adamant and diamond. So, think of Adamas as a strong, rocky port on Milos, and that image will help you remember the town's name.
