ruins or remains, as after destruction or burning
the city was left in ashes
the remains of a human body after cremation
from the mock obituary of English cricket in The Times in 1882 after a great Australian victory at the Oval, in which it was said that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia
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When fighting began, there were Sashes in both armies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miners and Quarrymen, headed by their Captains, all wearing Sashes.
From The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway by Gasquoine, C. P. (Charles Penrhyn)
White Woollen Coat and Sashes Woollen Socks I have no hesitation in pronouncing the Tibetan boots, from a practical point of view of utility, as the best in the world.
From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
They spin the Hair into Garters, Girdles, Sashes, and the like, it being long and curled, and often of a chesnut or red Colour.
Sashes had been taken from one of the big windows to admit the entrance of the heavier parts; thick pulley ropes dangled at the sill.
From The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
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