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Lemures  n. pl.  Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. "The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lemures" Quotes from Famous Books



... the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed. But not for Arbaces ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton



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