Skyriots

Noun

Skyriot (plural Skyriots)

1. One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Skyros.
   • Many years later, say the Skyriots, the British fleet with [Rupert] Brooke on board, was steaming north to free Constantinople from the Turks. The poet was dangerously ill, and when his ship came abreast of Skyros – strange destiny! – he died. His friends who were with him remembered his wish, and...1965, Michael Carroll, “Skyros: A Poet’s Grave”, in Gates of the Wind: On the Northern Sporades, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished as An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos, London...

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