Definitions
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- From Canopus, a city in northern Egypt. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Each was washed, rolled, and stuffed with crushed herbs and spices save for frankincense, forbidden, then placed in a canopic jar amid natron and resin.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘canopic jar’.
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Containers
Stuff that holds other stuff.
cardboard box, jar, filing cabinet, safe deposit box, cupboard, wardrobe, jewel case, briefcase, locker, canopic jar, chest of drawers, paper sack and 208 more...
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the one-two punch
short (mostly two-word) collocations, pat phrases, idioms &c. that I like
merry chase, glancing blow, beast mode, feedback loop, false flag, dear god, nothing human, deflector shield, hatchet job, not cricket, bang on, a tinker's damn and 250 more...
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temple to isis
ankh, sphinx, archaelogy, relic, hieroglyph, scarab, mummy, sarcophagus, pyramid, pillar, obelisk, alabaster and 6 more...
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