Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

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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