Pyrrhic (disambiguation)
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Pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.
Pyrrhic may also refer to:
- Pyrrhic victory, a victory at devastating cost
- Pyrrhic Victory (album), 2006 album by Intwine
- Pyrrhic Victories, a short story by Mathilda Malling
- Pyrrhic dance, a coming of age ritual for Korybantes warriors in Ancient Greece
- Pyrrhichios, an ancient Greek dance described by Xenophon
- Pyrrhic defeat theory, a theory in criminology
- Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC), a series of battles among the Greeks
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