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Petrified

(3 syl.). The petrified city. Ishmonie, in Upper Egypt, is so called from the number of petrified bodies of men, women, and children to be seen there. (Latin, petra-fio, to become rock.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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