sepulcher
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The three artists who broke into an abandoned South Seattle warehouse, turning it into a yawning sepulcher with eerie murals and sculpture partly based on monuments from a 19th-century Alaska Native cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2019
This is what Christiansen refers to as his “bathing cathedral”: Part hammam, part sepulcher, the 400-square-foot structure holds a fireplace and a poured-concrete tub oriented toward the sunrise.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
I therefore wished to make certain that no fleck of uncertainty besmirched the white sepulcher of her legitimacy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
But the right of sepulcher includes the presumption that family members suffer harm when their loved one's body is not promptly turned over for burial.
From Reuters ● Dec. 1, 2015
At first, huddled in her sepulcher, unable either to stand up or sit down despite her small size, Alba managed to stave off madness.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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