| LC control no. | sh 85034477 |
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| LC classification | NA2880 Architecture TH2150 TH2160 Building |
| Topical heading | Crypts |
| See also | subdivision Tomb under names of individual persons; and subdivision Tombs under classes of persons, names of individual families, royal houses, dynasties, etc. Burial Church architecture |
| Found in | Cambridge dictionaries online, July 7, 2015 (crypt: a room or rooms under the floor of a church where people are sometimes buried) Macmillan dictionary online, July 7, 2015 (crypt: an underground room where the bodies of dead people are buried, usually under a church) Oxford dictionaries online, July 7, 2015 (crypt: An underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place) Merriam-Webster dictionary online, July 7, 2015 (crypt a : a chamber (as a vault) wholly or partly underground; especially : a vault under the main floor of a church. b : a chamber in a mausoleum) Vocabulary.com, July 7, 2015 (crypt: A crypt is a vault for burying the dead, which is often underneath or part of a church building. Type of: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture - a chamber that is used as a grave) |
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