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- noun Plural form of
bucranium .
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Examples
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“Jefferson used rosettes and bucrania or ox skulls.”
The Last Patriot Brad Thor 2008
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“Did Jefferson use bucrania anywhere else here at Monticello?”
The Last Patriot Brad Thor 2008
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The entablature depicted bucrania and a variety of human faces, but didn’t look like their architectural renderings.
The Last Patriot Brad Thor 2008
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(whether bulls or others) and the snake (an unmistakable attribute) or with human figures associated with horned animals, bucrania, or other horned heads; and lastly with only human figures, who by their nature and attitude are related to fertilization.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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