Canopic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Canopic
Example Sentences
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A technical feat of bronze casting, the sludge-laden automobile is a "Canopic Chest."
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2015
Like "Canopic Chest," there's formal vigor but not much more.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2015
The little coffins, within the Canopic jars, within the alabaster box on its sledge, within the long-sealed tomb suggested a great Chinese nest of boxes, one cunningly held within the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within the casket were what Howard Carter expected to find�four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered.
From Time Magazine Archive
One can only imagine the speeds the drivers could have reached on the original Canopic Way, which was at least twice as wide as the existing thoroughfare.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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