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101Golden Fleece — noun Date: 14th century a fleece of gold placed by the king of Colchis in a dragon guarded grove and recovered by the Argonauts …
102Golden Fleece — Class. Myth. a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes s daughter, Medea. * * * …
103Golden Fleece, The Order of the — ▪ European knighthood order French L Ordre de la Toison d Or, German Der Orden vom Goldenen Vlies, Spanish La Orden del Toisón de Oro order of knighthood founded in Burgundy in 1430 and associated later especially with Habsburg… …
104Golden Fleece — noun a) A magical fleece from a winged ram guarded by the hydra in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts. b) A chivalric order founded in 1430 by Duke Philip III of Burgundy …
105Vest Fleece — A slang term used to describe a situation in which a company s executives accelerate the vesting of their employee stock options. Usually, accelerated vesting is preceded by a period of excessively high employee stock option grants. The result of …
106GOLDEN FLEECE — the fleece of a ram which PHRYXOS (q.v.), after he had sacrificed him to Zeus, gave to Æëtes, king of Colchis, who hung it on a sacred oak, and had it guarded by a monstrous dragon, and which it was the object of the Argonautic expedition… …
107Golden Fleece — n. fleece of gold recovered by the Argonauts from a dragon guarded grove (Greek Mythology) …
108Order of the Golden Fleece — See Golden Fleece, Order of the …
109double fleece — /dʌbəl ˈflis/ (say dubuhl flees) noun 1. a fleece of wool consisting of two years growth. 2. → double fleecer …
110Golden Fleece — /goʊldən ˈflis/ (say gohlduhn flees) noun Greek Legend the fleece of gold taken from the ram on which Phrixus was carried to the legendary land Colchis, recovered from King Aeëtes by Jason and the Argonauts. See Medea …
