Both Uses of
mausoleum
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†
Chpt 97-98
- Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.†
Chpt 97-98 *
Definition:
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(mausoleum) an impressive building in which one or more corpses are entombed