Dictionary Entry
An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “mummy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A boy crawls down into a Pharaoh's tomb
And, first of Christian men, beholds the mummy,
God and monkey, chariot and throne and vase,
Read full poem →Hope not for mind in women; at their best,
Sweetness and wit they are, but mummy, possess'd.
Read full poem →Then she could cover my mouth and eyes, cover me entirely,
And wear my painted face the way a mummy-case
Read full poem →Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight white
Mummy-cloths, smiling: I’m all right.
Read full poem →Yet so much tradition is wrapped around her stalk, it is strange she is
not a mummy. Her ashes can be found in the tombs of the Pharaohs, in
everlasting companionship with the ashes of the lotus and the papyrus
Read full poem →When I'm lugged out, he'll still be good for that.
Here in this mummy-case, you know, I've thought
How well I might have swept his floors for ever,