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  • noun Obsolete spelling of urn.

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Examples

  • Une urne historique peut-elle, ou bien même une image aimante

    Literary translation (English) Rene Meertens 2010

  • Then, you tuck the remaining billet* into the blue envelope, exit the isoloir and place it in that see-through urne* over there.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Then, you tuck the remaining billet* into the blue envelope, exit the isoloir and place it in that see-through urne* over there.

    isoloir - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • Then, you tuck the remaining billet* into the blue envelope, exit the isoloir and place it in that see-through urne* over there.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Then, you tuck the remaining billet* into the blue envelope, exit the isoloir and place it in that see-through urne* over there.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum, Si þin nama gehalgod. to becume þin rice, gewurþe ðin willa, on eorðan swa swa on heofonum. urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg, and forgyf us ure gyltas, swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum. and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele. soþlice.

    In Which I Finally Address Medieval Studies Heo 2006

  • For it was the custom of the Romans to burne their dead, to put their ashes in an urne, and then bury the same with certain ceremonies, in some field appointed for the purpose neere unto their city.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 Various

  • Comme une onde qui bout dans une urne trop pleine, 70

    L'Expiation 1920

  • Comme une onde qui bout dans une urne trop pleine, '

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • She was astonished by what she said, astonished by the sudden overflowing of something she had not known was there, but which was so great that her heart could not contain it, "comme une onde qui bout dans une urne trop pleine."

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

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