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Sarcophagi

/-d͡ʒaɪ/

A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

📖 Definitions of "Sarcophagi"

noun
  1. 1

    A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

  4. 4

    An 18th-century form of wine cooler.

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