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n. - A small figure placed in an ancient Egyptian tomb and representing servants who will do work for the mummy in the afterlife

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  • It was the wooden ushabti figure that I had carved.
  • Nicholas hung up, and went to the door, but suddenly he turned back and picked up the the Taita ushabti from the desk.
  • Each ushabti was a delightfully carved wooden doll dressed in the authentic uniform of his calling and bearing the appropriate tools.
  • But there is a fragmentary funerary figurine or ushabti (possiby an early nineteenth-century find from KV20) and some pieces of her wooden coffin.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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