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Potter's field   /pˈɑtərz fild/   Listen
Potter's field

noun
1.
A cemetery for unknown or indigent people.





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"Potter's field" Quotes from Famous Books



... priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood." And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, "The field of blood," unto ...
— His Life - A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels • William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, Sydney Strong


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