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Answer for the clue "Romans' ancestral spirits ", 5 letters:
manes

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Manes \Ma"nes\, n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors. Hail, O ye holy manes! --Dryden.

Usage examples of manes.

The riders wore horn-mail over dun uniforms, slit to mid-spine, braided manes flying.

Now, to me, none of the troopers looked clean, and they oiled their braided manes with a pungent oil.

Most had manes braided down the spine but pulled up into a cascading horsetail on the crown of the head.

It was more noticeable in Shiriya-Shenin: their slit robes, curved pairs of blades and manes braided with ceramic beads, their habit of going barefoot on tessellated stone floors.

The sea wind blew in their white unbound manes, where bronze and gold pins were tangled.

North Road the horses stretched out, manes and tails streaming back in the moonlight as they raced northward, hooves pounding a steady rhythm.

Even Mandarb and riderless Aldieb staggered as if drunk, and those who rode had to cling to reins and manes, to anything, to keep their seats.

With a thunder of hoofs, with tossing heads, widened nostrils, and waving manes, over a score of Talking Horses of Narnia came charging up the hill.

He and Tek chased across the high downs above the shore, wind whipping their manes and beards.

Their manes stood upright along their necks like the manes of newborn foals.

Wald passed on to the boy who plaited manes, and the youngster readily did as he was bid, working sometimes from before dawn until long after dark, and never seeming to want more than what food he could eat while standing in the kitchen.

All that was demanded of him the boy who plaited manes did without any change in his thin face, any movement of his closed mouth, any flash of his feral eyes.

Wald considered the constant plaiting and adorning of manes and tails a great bother.

While the Gel daThae men wore their hair in braided manes, the women shaved every bit of theirs.

He could also discern that they had manes as wild and long as those of their mounts.