Usually means: Tragic love story, ancient myth.
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  1. pyramus and thisbe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pyramus and Thisbe: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pyramus and Thisbe: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. pyramus and thisbe: Dictionary.com
  5. Pyramus and Thisbe (opera), Pyramus and Thisbe, Pyramus and thisbe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Pyramus and Thisbe: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Pyramus and Thisbe)

noun:  In Greek mythology, Pyramus and Thisbe are a pair of ill-fated lovers from Babylon, whose story is best known from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses.
noun:  a "mock opera" by the German-born composer John Frederick Lampe on the story of Pyramus and Thisbe.


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