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- noun Plural form of
urn .
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Examples
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We cannot but wish these urns might have the effect of theatrical vessels and great Hippodrome urns+ in
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It's better to do nothing than let plantings in urns and window boxes wither.
How to soften the transition from sidewalk to front door Ann Cameron Siegal 2010
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Often the effigy represented on these urns is the Zapotec rain god, Cocijo, but bat and jaguar effigies are also common.
A day in Oaxaca = Two thousand years, Part One: The Americas' oldest urban centre. 2005
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Often the effigy represented on these urns is the Zapotec rain god, Cocijo, but bat and jaguar effigies are also common.
A day in Oaxaca = Two thousand years, Part One: The Americas' oldest urban centre. 2005
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Breakfast consisted of two slices of cold toast thinly smeared with margarine, tea and milk served up in urns, without sugar; lunch a small portion of fish and vegetables with two slices of bread.
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His ashes are still in urns in a closet in my mother’s house (right next to the wine – he’d like that).
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There were twelve bright, new, imposing, capacious brass cuspidors in the great lobby, tall enough to be called urns and so wide-mouthed that the crack pitcher of a lady baseball team should have been able to throw a ball into one of them at five paces distant.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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All water heating equipment when not in use, namely urns, hotplates and coffee machines.
Joburg.org.za 2009
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He listened, punctuating the conversation with several significant "urns," and then clamped a hand over the mouthpiece.
A Maiden's Grave Deaver, Jeffery 1995
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I told him that in my own country we guarded the palladium of our liberties (a queer palladium that needs to be guarded) against this peril by using glass globes instead of the 'urns' employed in France, which are in fact wooden boxes.
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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