All 3 Uses of
mausoleum
in
The Fountainhead
- I'm not building mausoleums.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- Guy Francon, Stanton's greatest alumnus, who had designed the famous Frink National Bank Building of New York City, on the top of which, twenty-five floors above the pavements, there burned in a miniature replica of the Hadrian Mausoleum a wind-blown torch made of glass and the best General Electric bulbs.†
Chpt 1.2
- When the sun was gone, the torch of Hadrian's Mausoleum flared up in its stead, and made glowing red smears on the glass of windows for miles around, on the top stories of buildings high enough to reflect it.†
Chpt 1.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(mausoleum) an impressive building in which one or more corpses are entombed
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, a mausoleum can reference any large, depressing room or building.