All 10 Uses of
tribute
in
The Da Vinci Code
- As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her fouryear cycle to organize their Olympiads.†
Chpt 6
- He incorporated in many of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian—tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.†
Chpt 8
- My friends, each of you is a walking tribute to the Divine Proportion.†
Chpt 19-20
- Tomorrow, I'll show you his fresco The Last Supper, which is one of the most astonishing tributes to the sacred feminine you will ever see.†
Chpt 19-20
- Dead ahead, at the end of Champs-Elysées, stood the Arc de Triomphe—Napoleon's 164-foot-tall tribute to his own military potency—encircled by France's largest rotary, a nine-lane behemoth.†
Chpt 33-34
- To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute—Sunday.†
Chpt 55-56
- The cornucopia or "horn of plenty" was a tribute to Baphomet's fertility and dated back to Zeus being suckled by a goat whose horn broke off and magically filled with fruit.†
Chpt 75-76
- On the back, Collet found notations scrawled in English, describing a cathedral's long hollow nave as a secret pagan tribute to a woman's womb.†
Chpt 79-80
- Stone tributes to real men.†
Chpt 85-86 *
- The keywords with context were enough to remind him that Wagner's opera Parsifal was a tribute to Mary Magdalene and the bloodline of Jesus Christ, told through the story of a young knight on a quest for truth.†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
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(tribute as in: demanded they pay tribute) payment by one nation for protection by another;
or: payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence