Eternal sleep

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty. uncountable

    "She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day."

  2. 2
    euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) wordnet
  3. 3
    Death euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable

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