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Short "hint"

Stone coffins, esp. those bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.

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Usage examples (19)
  • In Haiti, bodies are neither embalmed nor buried, just placed into above-ground concrete sarcophaguses.
  • Mummies escape from their sacrophigi (sarcophaguses?) intent on world domination, only to be attacked by gorillas and elephants.
  • In the dimness, he could make out the stone sarcophaguses of the interred archbishops arrayed in a semicircle around the rough-hewn stone walls of the chamber.
  • There are sarcophaguses that are above - ground tombs, but he specified that he wanted to be buried in the ground with cold earth, as he put it, I believe, around him.
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