Phaeacian
[fee-ey-shuh] /fiˈeɪ ʃə/
noun, Classical Mythology.
1.
an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
/fiːˈeɪʃən/
noun
1.
(Greek myth) one of a race of people inhabiting the island of Scheria visited by Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War
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