🔤 Lachrymatory ✨
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URDU
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ENGLISH
📚noun
lachrymatory
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: lækɹɪmətəɹi
Phonetic: lækɹɪmətəɹi
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DEFINITION
A vase intended to hold tears, formerly used by archaeologists to designate certain urns found in Roman burials.
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
1658: For beside these Lachrymatories, notable Lamps with Vessels of Oyles and Aromaticall Liquors attended noble Ossuaries. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
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SYNONYMS
lacrimatory
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