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Meanings of sepulcher in English

Portuguese
sepulcro
Catalan
sepultura

A chamber that is used as a grave.

        sepulcro

        A place (commonly marked with a headstone) where one or more people are buried (usually in a coffin underneath the ground).

              Usage of sepulcher in English
              1
              He saw in them the sepulcher of his people's pride and glory.
              An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 17...
              2
              Ebed-melech hung around the sepulcher of his beloved master for many days.
              Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)
              3
              Such an example, from a sepulcher at Ancon, is shown in Fig.
              A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of...
              4
              Charity's good repute became now the whitewash on a sepulcher of corruption.
              We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
              5
              Finding his way to Joseph's garden, Quintus stands by an empty sepulcher.
              An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight
              6
              Fellow-scholars, this stately Mound is not a sepulcher, it is a monument!
              Sketches New and Old
              7
              The Gospel call stops outside of the door of the sepulcher.
              New Tabernacle Sermons
              8
              I knew that they felt as I felt: the laboratory was a sepulcher!
              Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
              9
              Like the skeletons of long-dead men clawing their way out of a sepulcher.
              Phantoms
              10
              Caim caught her hand and drew her closer to the sepulcher.
              Shadow's son
              11
              Let's go. They ran down into the sepulcher, which was now brightly lit.
              Winter’s Tale
              12
              No other teacher of the East has ever come back from the sepulcher.
              An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight
              13
              Shall man fight for the tomb which devours him, for his eternal sepulcher?
              The Promulgation of Universal Peace
              14
              The lid of the sepulcher had closed and he had slipped from under it.
              The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all na...
              15
              But the world in after years plowed up his sepulcher.
              New Tabernacle Sermons
              16
              His next moment of lucidity came in the cool tiled sepulcher of the bathroom.
              The Rhesus Chart
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