Ashes

See also: ashes

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Proper noun

Ashes

1. plural of Ash
2. (attributively) the Ashes
   • 1954 March 1, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, page 2, column 4:

     The superlatives have been 'wrung dry to describe' that tumultous heart-warming welcome in Sydney and beyond, the kind of picture we needed to stir us from such melancholy contemplations as our cricketers' fall from Ashes glory in the West Indies.

   • 2015, Steven Lynch, Wisden on the Ashes:

     My Ashes experiences have led to lifelong friendships with numerous Australians as well as England team-mates.

See also

• the Ashes

Anagrams

• Hasse, Sesha, Sheas, hases, he-ass, seahs