sarcophagus

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A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

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A species of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins. It was called by the Romans lapis Assius, from being found at Assos, a city of the Troad.

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A stone coffin, especially one ornamented with sculptures or bearing inscriptions, etc.

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A peculiar wine-cooler forming part of a dining-room sideboard about the end of the eighteenth century: it was a dark mahogany box, lined with lead.

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A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.

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A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

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A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

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A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

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The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

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a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)