Definitions
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- adjective Resembling an
urn .
Etymologies
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urn + -like
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Examples
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In 2009, Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City featured a motley assortment of pot-smoking Manhattanites who become obsessed with "chaldrons", beautiful, urnlike objects that none of them has actually seen in person.
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“Ueber die Moralische Schönheit und Philosophie des Lebens,” [79] whose eighth chapter is titled “Vom Stolz, eine Erzählung,” this title occupying one page; the next page (210) is blank; the following page is adorned with an urnlike decoration beneath which we read, “Es war einmal ein Priester.”
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