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
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
The lawsuit contends that Mr. Durst violated the McCormack family’s right to sepulcher, a rarely used New York law granting family members the immediate right to possession of a body for burial.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2015
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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