Ventris

[ ven-tris ]

/ ˈvɛn trɪs /

noun

Michael George Francis,1922–56, English architect and linguist.

Example sentences from the Web for ventris

Sometimes, as in Mrs. Ventris's case, fairy-wives play truant for a night or for a season.

Lore of Proserpine |Maurice Hewlett
I found out indeed this much about her ostensible state, that she was the wife of a cab-driver whose name was Ventris.

Lore of Proserpine |Maurice Hewlett
Simulato religionis prtextu, ventris tyrannidisque su, negotium agentes.

History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume III |J. H. Merle D'Aubign
Mrs. Ventris was a puzzle to me for a good many years—in fact until Despoina explained to me many things.

Lore of Proserpine |Maurice Hewlett

Even there I have never been satisfied that Quidnunc became man to the extent that Mrs. Ventris did.

Lore of Proserpine |Maurice Hewlett

British Dictionary definitions for ventris

Ventris

/ (ˈvɛntrɪs) /

noun

Michael George Francis. 1922–56, English architect and scholar, who deciphered the Linear B script, identifying it as an early form of Mycenaean Greek

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