From FinnegansWiki
- Pyrrha: Deucalion’s wife in Greek mythology → corresponds to Coba, Noah’s wife, in the Greek myth of the Flood → see chopwife three lines above
- la pyrrichie: (French) a dance → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
- Pyrrhic: a martial dance of ancient Greece → Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution 3:7:6: "So dies Sansculottism, the body of Sansculottism; or is changed. Its ragged Pythian Carmagnole-dance has transformed itself into a Pyrrhic, into a dance of Cabarus Balls"
