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单词 tumulus
释义 tumulus|ˈtjuːmjʊləs|
Pl. tumuli |-laɪ|.
[Derivative (? dim.) from root tum- of tumē-re to swell, tumor, etc.]
An ancient sepulchral mound, a barrow (barrow n.1 3).
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. xlv. (Bodl. MS.), A downe [is] lower þan an hille..and hatte tumulus, as it were swelling londe.]1686Plot Staffordsh. 403 Not the only signe of Roman tumuli.1765J. Bartram Jrnl. 26 Dec., in W. Stork Acc. E. Florida (1766) 7 A middling sized Indian tumulus.1794Sullivan View Nat. IV. 393 The tumuli, and the other repositories of the dead,..discovered in the..deserts of the north.1853Felton Fam. Lett. xxx. (1865) 264 Leonidas and his Three Hundred..lie beneath yonder tumulus.1863Lyell Antiq. Man 15 Tumuli of the stone period.
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