Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, an ornamental stone of which vases, cups, and other ornamental articles were made.
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Examples
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"murra" right to the streets of Nairobi and Kampala.
unknown title 2009
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Chutter-murra Wylo had so often indicated the exact locality of the stone, and had described its dire influence with such sincerity that, when it twinkled, a resolution which had been long in the back of my mind became wilful and imperative.
Tropic Days 2003
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And in the great vases of priceless murra roses and lilies and white tuberoses, the spoils of costly glasshouses, were slowly drooping in the heavy atmosphere.
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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In vases of delicate murra huge bunches of blood-red roses hung their drooping heads, and beneath the feet carpets of heavy silk hid the exquisite beauty of mosaics of lapis-lazuli and chrysoprase.
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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An air of mystery still hung over the magnificent triclinium, its convivial board, its abandoned couches, over the vases of murra and crystal and the fast dying roses.
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Everything had been sold, from the bed with the gilt legs on which the body of the censor had been laid after his death, to the last vase of murra that adorned his walls and the cups of crystal from which his guests had drunk.
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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An 'howsumebber, de Lawd ain truss Adam an sezee, Boy, dese winta apple ain fo' tech tell next summa ', an atta de Lawd dun gie de awda he leff Adam, but he leff Gabriell and Nicodemus, he cuzzin by he murra side, o' de house de gyadin, and watch Adam, kaze he hab a bad carakter fo trick an cunninness.
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Chutter-murra Wylo had so often indicated the exact locality of the stone, and had described its dire influence with such sincerity that, when it twinkled, a resolution which had been long in the back of my mind became wilful and imperative.
Tropic Days 1887
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Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402-422,) to mean the porcelain of China and
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402 — 422,) to mean the porcelain of China and Japan.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
nbraswell1 commented on the word murra
I just completed the welder word for the day =)
October 10, 2012