Synonyms for ashes
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ash |
| Phonetic Transcription : æʃ |
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Définition of ashes
Origin :- "powdery remains of fire," Old English æsce "ash," from Proto-Germanic *askon (cf. Old Norse and Swedish aska, Old High German asca, German asche, Gothic azgo "ashes"), from PIE root *as- "to burn, glow" (cf. Sanskrit asah "ashes, dust," Armenian azazem "I dry up," Greek azein "to dry up, parch," Latin ardus "parched, dry"). Spanish and Portuguese ascua "red-hot coal" are Germanic loan-words.
- Symbol of grief or repentance; hence Ash Wednesday (c.1300), from custom introduced by Pope Gregory the Great of sprinkling ashes on the heads of penitents on the first day of Lent. Ashes meaning "mortal remains of a person" is late 13c., in reference to the ancient custom of cremation.
- noun powder remains after a fire
- noun ruins
- My poor boy, he who is sitting in sackcloth and ashes needs no jester.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- What mattered it that the honey of it was as ashes in her mouth?
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The Old Map knocked the ashes out of his pipe and went in to look at him.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- He flicked the ashes from his cigar, nursing his knee with the other hand.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- I carried the rod below, to dry it, and covered the lower part with ashes.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- After two or three hours we reached the bottom of the cone of rocks and ashes.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- They are made by the ashes that have been dug out by the excavators and piled here.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- Their pen held them and the ashes covered them and to-day we can see their skeletons.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- Nothing but ashes remained to mark the spot,—nothing but ashes!
- Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Bless the place, I love the ashes of the vagabond fires that have scorched its grass!
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
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