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- noun Plural form of
entombment .
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Examples
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This statement, along with a raft of other utterances Rothko made over the years, has given rise to an art critics 'cottage industry: lending narrative interpretations -- from nativities to entombments -- to his paintings.
Darkness Into Light 2008
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Moscow archaeologist and anthropologist Denis Pezhemsky said, excavation work has been going on since early July, and they were expecting more entombments to be dug out.
75 medieval entombments excavated in north-western Russia 2007
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Medieval News: 75 medieval entombments excavated in north-western Russia
75 medieval entombments excavated in north-western Russia 2007
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"It was purely Novgorodian custom, a part of their culture to leave coins at entombments," Russia Info-Centre quoted Pezhemsky as saying.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Moscow archaeologist and anthropologist Denis Pezhemsky said, excavation work has been going on since early July, and they were expecting more entombments to be dug out.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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"It was purely Novgorodian custom, a part of their culture to leave coins at entombments," Russia Info-Centre quoted Pezhemsky as saying.
75 medieval entombments excavated in north-western Russia 2007
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Since he had survived such entombments before, this one did not cause apprehension, and there was one change which brought a measure of contentment.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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I suppose it is because I know every tree and shrub in its true form that snow seems to pile itself nowhere as it does here: it becomes a garden of entombments.
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous
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_Quattrocentisti_ as enlarged the sphere of artistic action, by going out of the conventional circle of holy families, nativities, and entombments.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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They are, respectively, a list of the entombments of Roman bishops from Lucius to Sylvester (253-335), with the place of their burial, and a
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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