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单词 tear-bottle
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tear-bottlen.

/ˈtɪəˌbɒt(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tear n.1, bottle n.3
Etymology: < tear n.1 + bottle n.3
A bottle containing tears (cf. Psalm lvi. 8 ‘put my tears into thy bottle’); also transferred; spec. = lachrymatory n. 1, applied to small bottles or phials, such as are found in ancient tombs, supposed, with doubtful correctness, to have contained tears shed for the deceased.
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lachrymatory1658
tear-bottle1658
urn1753
lachrymary1755
lachrymal1769
tear-jug1869
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 33 No..Lachrymatories, or Tear-bottles attended these rurall Urnes.
a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 122 Called lachrymatorij, or tear-bottles, because the friends and relations of the defunct were in ancient time accustomed at the funeral to carry each of them a lachrymatorio in his hand, to save his tears that he shed for his deceased friend, and then leave those bottles behind them with the immuralld corps.
1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 259 Stow away the tear-bottles, coil down all tender feeling out of sight.
attributive.1904 E. A. T. W. Budge Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 35 Glass vessels..of the well-known lacrimarium, or ‘tear-bottle’ type, and belonging to the Roman period.
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