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mausoleum

[maw-suh-lee-uhm, -zuh-] / ˌmɔ səˈli əm, -zə- /


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The bronze crypt plate mounted at the mausoleum had the star’s name engraved on it before she died, alongside her husband’s name and a depiction of her Tennessee home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Huge crowds filled the city of Najaf for a procession that ended at the mausoleum of Imam Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law and first Shia Imam.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

This year, an empty chair bearing Ali Khamenei's portrait stood at the mausoleum.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Octavian immediately dispatched his messengers to the mausoleum, but they arrived too late.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

“What does it mean to have some lone surviving mausolea in the middle of a massive jumble of roads and traffic?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

"It looks like a large number of villa buildings, along with a probable bath house and perhaps even mausolea and a chapel," said Dr Gater.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2022

The National Museum of African American History and Culture now stands as a glittering golden crown on the Mall, in Washington DC, a brilliant foil to the neighbouring rows of white stone mausolea.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2017

We are their monuments; their mausolea is their country, and her growing prosperity the amaranthine wreath that Time shall place over their dust.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

This is particularly true of the tomb mosques, situated in the mausolea on the east side of the city, and known as the Tombs of the Khalifs.

From Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

Cemeteries need not take up hundreds of acres, since mausoleums can contain thousands of cremated remains in much smaller space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Conservative governor Tarcisio de Freitas on Tuesday signed the so-called Bob Coveiro law that will allow pets to be buried in family graves or mausoleums across Sao Paulo state.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

Teddi Mellencamp said that’s when she started making demands, like what would go on her tombstone — if tombstones even exist in mausoleums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading fighters who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

Bod had stores of food, the kind that lasted, cached in the crypt, and more in some of the chillier tombs and vaults and mausoleums.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman


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