Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, an ornamental stone of which vases, cups, and other ornamental articles were made.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"murra" right to the streets of Nairobi and Kampala.
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Chutter-murra Wylo had so often indicated the exact locality of the stone, and had described its dire influence with such sincerity that, when it twinkled, a resolution which had been long in the back of my mind became wilful and imperative.
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And in the great vases of priceless murra roses and lilies and white tuberoses, the spoils of costly glasshouses, were slowly drooping in the heavy atmosphere.
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In vases of delicate murra huge bunches of blood-red roses hung their drooping heads, and beneath the feet carpets of heavy silk hid the exquisite beauty of mosaics of lapis-lazuli and chrysoprase.
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An air of mystery still hung over the magnificent triclinium, its convivial board, its abandoned couches, over the vases of murra and crystal and the fast dying roses.
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Everything had been sold, from the bed with the gilt legs on which the body of the censor had been laid after his death, to the last vase of murra that adorned his walls and the cups of crystal from which his guests had drunk.
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An 'howsumebber, de Lawd ain truss Adam an sezee, Boy, dese winta apple ain fo' tech tell next summa ', an atta de Lawd dun gie de awda he leff Adam, but he leff Gabriell and Nicodemus, he cuzzin by he murra side, o' de house de gyadin, and watch Adam, kaze he hab a bad carakter fo trick an cunninness.
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Chutter-murra Wylo had so often indicated the exact locality of the stone, and had described its dire influence with such sincerity that, when it twinkled, a resolution which had been long in the back of my mind became wilful and imperative.
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Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402-422,) to mean the porcelain of China and
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
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Their baggage mules transported not only the precious vases, but even the fragile vessels of crystal and murra, which last is almost proved, by the learned French translator of Seneca, (tom.iii. p. 402 — 422,) to mean the porcelain of China and Japan.
nbraswell1 commented on the word murra
I just completed the welder word for the day =)
October 10, 2012