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bucranium
Also ·Ա
[byoo-krey-nee-uhm]
noun
plural
bucrania(in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bucranium1
1850–55; < Late Latin ūԾܳ < Greek dzܰ́Ծ ( on ) an ox-head, equivalent to Greek bou- (stem of û ) ox + íDz cranium
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But the head of a musician is harder than a bucranium, and the blows which Théophile received did not avail to modify that angel's notion of divine providence.
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A decoration in white paint over the doorways of certain houses in the south is a relic of the religious custom of placing a bucranium there to avert evil.
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