cassiopeia

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CASSIOPEIA, noun A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, situated near to Cepheus, as the fabulous cassiopeia was wife to Cepheus, king of Ethiopia. It contains fifty five stars.
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