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columbaria

noun

plural of columbarium

as in crypts

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At Penzing Studios, the open-air museum at Bad Windsheim, the fortress at Lichtenau, and sites in Nuremberg, the production found medieval stonework, corridors, chapels, crypts, and staircases suited to the royal court.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026

Definition of crypts

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There are just under 5,000 burial vaults (all above ground), which include imposing mausoleums made of marble.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026
Under California’s Health and Safety Code, local governments can establish rules for burial, inurnment and entombment, as well as the maintenance of cemeteries, mausoleums and columbariums.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

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But passing motorists largely knew nothing of the collection of handmade replica of catacombs, Biblical scenes and Israelite villages beneath it.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
Avedon, whose work and career had a big influence on Hujar early on, had produced a series of images of the Palermo catacombs in 1959.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of catacombs

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Ciarán himself has spent an itinerant four years since Brockhampton’s dissolution in 2022 crafting Róisín, a solo debut that looks back through today’s bedroom-pop bricolage into the roomy vaults of D’Angelo and Prince.

— H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2026
LastPass, for example, has been breached a couple of times, but the attackers made off with contact data like names and email addresses, never vaults.

— Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of vaults

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While studying the tombs, the archaeologists found more than 1,000 cannabis seeds.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2026
Its paths stretch across 478 hilly acres, winding beside tombs belonging to iconic figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Leonard Bernstein.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of tombs

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Multiple speakers, including some with family members in the cemetery, cited a Washington Post analysis that the arch would cast shadows on thousands of graves.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
The subsequent police operation exposed hundreds of shallow graves, with a soaring death toll that required a pause in excavations as local morgues ran out of space.

— CBS News, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026

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