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red-necked (iou) and Troilus and Cressida (sh)


red-necked (iou)



red-necked adjective. L19.
[from RED adjective + NECKED.]
Chiefly Zoology. Having a red neck. L19.
red-necked avocet an Australian avocet, Recurvirostra novaehollandiae. red-necked grebe a holarctic grebe, Podiceps grisegena. red-necked nightjar an Iberian and N. African nightjar, Caprimulgus ruficollis. red-necked phalarope a northern holarctic phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus, which has a chestnut patch on the neck when in breeding plumage. red-necked wallaby an Australian wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus, naturalized in parts of Britain.
Holding redneck views; characteristic of a redneck; reactionary, conservative. Orig. US. M20.

Troilus and Cressida (sh)




Lovers in medieval romance, based on characters from Greek mythology.

In the Iliad, Troilus, son of Priam and Hecuba, is dead before the Trojan War starts. In non-Homeric legends he was said to have been killed during the war by Achilles. He was first turned into a romantic figure in the Middle Ages, when he was portrayed as an innocent young lover betrayed by the faithless Cressida, who abandoned him for the Greek warrior Diomedes. The first version of the story was written by the 12th-century trouvere Beno?t de Sainte-Maure in the poem "Roman de Troie." More famous versions include Giovanni Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde," and William Shakespeare's drama Troilus and Cressida.