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Cressida

Cres·si·da [ kréssədə ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. unfaithful Trojan woman: in medieval retellings of the Trojan War, a Trojan woman captured by the Greeks who was unfaithful to her Trojan lover, Troilus, by giving herself to the Greek Diomedes

2. a small moon of Uranus: a small natural satellite of Uranus, discovered by the Voyager 2 planetary probe in 1986

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