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homage
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  • "Taps" is also played at funerals, a way of paying homage to lost comrades.  (source)
    homage = respect or loyalty
  • I didn't want to be Horatio Alger in someone's tear-filled homage to the American dream.†  (source)
  • Minos was a son of Zeus, and all the bootlicking Olympians would also come to pay their homage.†  (source)
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  • Sufi Mohammad was sitting on the stage with a long queue of people waiting to pay homage.†  (source)
    homage = respect or loyalty
  • Lak bowed his head and paid homage to the spirit of the bear.†  (source)
    paid homage = showed respect or honor
  • He'd seen it more than any other film, always citing the nods to Hitchcock, the many witty homages—though he'd never made clear his love of Hitchcock in the first place.†  (source)
  • This message had been embedded in the log-in sequence by James Halliday himself, when he'd first programmed the OASIS, as an homage to the simulation's direct ancestors, the coin-operated videogames of his youth.†  (source)
    homage = respect or loyalty
  • As the son of Macon Dead the first, he paid homage to his own father's life and death by loving what that father had loved: property, good solid property, the bountifulness of life.†  (source)
    paid homage = showed respect or honor
  • Homais introduced himself; he offered his homages to madame and his respects to monsieur; said he was charmed to have been able to render them some slight service, and added with a cordial air that he had ventured to invite himself, his wife being away.†  (source)
  • The bomber, soon to be named Tokyo Rose as a mocking homage to the women who broadcast Japanese propaganda, was piloted by Captain Ralph Steakley.†  (source)
    homage = respect or loyalty
  • In 1996 the group paid homage to the Church of Satan and had a hit with "Etiquette of Evil."†  (source)
    paid homage = showed respect or honor
  • He lifts her hand to his mouth and touches his lips to it, not a kiss as such but a token of respect and homage.†  (source)
    homage = respect or loyalty
  • He paid homage to the spirit of the deer, thanked the Sun God and his ancestors.†  (source)
    paid homage = showed respect or honor
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