cinerary
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cinerary
1740–50; < New Latin cinerārius; see cineraria
Example Sentences
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They’re cinerary jars, crafted by British ceramist Julian Stair to hold human remains.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2017
One is an early Roman vessel used as a cinerary urn; another, a group of 20th-century Venetian glass designs by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa, was on view last winter.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2014
A columbarium was a tomb containing a number of cinerary urns in niches like pigeon-holes, whence the name.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
While the tombs of Egypt have furnished these monuments, Karnac is represented by a portion of its great obelisk, and Rome has supplied a cinerary urn with cremated bones, several sepulchral tablets, and an altar.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Each retained its funeral suppellex and decorations almost intact: paintings, bas-reliefs, mosaics, inscriptions, lamps, jewelry, statues, busts, cinerary urns, and sarcophagi.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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