单词 | funeral pot |
释义 | > as lemmasfuneral pot funeral pot n. a pot used during a funeral or as part of a funeral ceremony, spec. one used to hold the ashes of a cremated body; a funeral urn. ΚΠ 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 408 Those..in their way as they past, came..to touche the funerall pot of his ashes. 1783 H. Swinburne Trav. in Two Sicilies I. 195 Chance has brought to light great quantities of funeral pots. 1999 T. Kirkwood Time of our Lives (2000) i. 9 There are even special funeral pots of baked clay on sale in the markets, just to hold all the extra food and millet beer. 2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Mar. a2 Ancient funeral pots can fetch as much as $60,000 on the black market. < as lemmas |
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