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mausoleum

 (n): a large burial chamber, usually above ground
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2 months ago yarb said:

Vinyl scoured of footmarks,
office a mausoleum,
typewriters muffled in hoods...

- Peter Reading, Absentees, from The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery, 1976

8 months ago rolig said:

from King Mausolos of Caria, who built himself a fancy tomb in Halicarnassus that (I think) made the list of Seven Top Wonders.

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