Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of cœmetery
That the banks of rivers ſhould he their only cœmeteries, may be explained from the ravages occaſioned by inundations, which may have left their carcaſes in theſe ſpots.
1784, “Continuation of occaſional Remarks from Ruſſia”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume LVIII, page 520
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