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An´dron

    (ăn´drǒn)
n.1.(Gr. & Rom. Arch.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The king of men (it is Colonel Crawley, who, indeed, has no notion about the sack of Ilium or the conquest of Cassandra), the anax andron is asleep in his chamber at Argos.
Caption: Edward Andron, ARM, smiled proudly after he received the ARM of the year award from incoming chapter president James Hayden, CPM, at the greater New York Chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management's annual dinner & awards at Tavern on the Green.
In this study of the French Canadian writer Gabrielle Roy, Marie-Pierre Andron considers successively the body of the mother (obese, debilitated, prematurely aged), the body of the young woman (gracile for as long as it is chaste, constantly subject to almost intolerable temptations), the couple (in which the man conserves a youthfulness denied to his spouse, but is in many ways a negligible quantity, detectable mainly through his progeniture), and lastly those things (art and nature) through which carnal lusts may be sublimated, and which are often described by means of erotic imagery.
Several episodes remained to be filmed at the time of his death in April at age 51, and Dave Andron -- the "Snowfall" showrunner who created it with Singleton and Eric Amadio -- "marvel(s) in thinking about" how those behind and in front of the cameras pressed onward to get the job done.
It was listed by Christopher Andron of Andron Realty Group Tulip Real Estate and sold by Andron and his colleague Carol Clinton.