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Platonic Bodies

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The five regular geometric solids described by Platoviz. the tetrahedron, hexahedron, oct - hedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, all of which are bounded by like, equal, and regular planes.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Plank
Plantagenet
Plaster of Paris
Plate (A)
Platen
Plates or Plates of Meat
Platform
Plato
Plato and the Bees
Plato’s Year
Platonic Bodies
Platonic Love
Platonic Puritan (The)
Platonism
Platter with Two Eyes (A)
Play
Play the Deuce
Played Out
Playing to the Gods
Please the Pigs
Pleased as Punch

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Body. (Anglo-Saxon, bodig.)