sepulchre
noun/ˈseplkə(r)/
/ˈseplkər/
(US English sepulcher)
(old use)- a place for a dead body, either cut in rock or built of stoneTopics Life stagesc2Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’.
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