Ic‧a‧rus /ˈɪkərəs/
in ancient Greek stories, the son of the inventor Daedalus, who made wings fastened together with wax for himself and Icarus so that they could escape from the island of Crete by flying. But Icarus flew too close to the sun, so that the wax melted, and he fell and died.

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