单词 | cremains |
释义 | cremainsn. Chiefly North American. The ashes of a cremated person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > ashes ashc1275 moulda1400 cindersa1547 cremains1950 1950 Warren (Pa.) Times-Mirror 12 Sept. 5/1 Interment of the cremains to take place in the family plot. 1963 Punch 16 Oct. 577/2 The loved one..has his cremains hygienically dissolved. 1982 C. H. Nichols Funerals, Burial & Cremation in T. G. Duncan Over 55 xl. 655 Cremains may be buried in the container in which they were delivered by the crematory, or, in the absence of restrictions, simply scattered. 2002 Washington Post 25 Sept. (Home ed.) c15/5 Louise travels first class to more places and attends more functions as cremains than she did when she was flesh and blood. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1950 |
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