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1
a final resting place for a dead person
- opened the sepulture and examined the mummy
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2
the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place
- the final sepulture of the body had to wait until the ground thawed
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- burial,
- burying,
- entombing,
- entombment,
- inhumation,
- interment,
- interring,
- obsequy
- (usually obsequies)
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“Sepulture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sepulture. Accessed 17 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of sepulture was in the 14th century
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