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sepulcher

[sep-uhl-ker] / ˈsɛp əl kər /


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Fans mark Marilyn Monroe’s crypt with lipsticky kisses, and are kept an enforced distance from Michael Jackson’s marble sepulcher in Glendale, at Forest Lawn.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2024

Dr. Reeves proposed that the tomb was, in fact, merely an antechamber to a grander sepulcher for Tutankhamun’s stepmother and predecessor, Nefertiti.

From New York Times Oct. 30, 2022

Inside the exclusion zone, there is destruction by lava as well as burial in a sepulcher of black snow.

From Seattle Times Nov. 4, 2021

I therefore wished to make certain that no fleck of uncertainty besmirched the white sepulcher of her legitimacy.

From Washington Post Apr. 13, 2018

Sunday morning, in a Vermont town, my last day in New England, I shaved, dressed in a suit, polished my shoes, whited my sepulcher, and looked for a church to attend.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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