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mausoleum

Large, free-standing, sumptuous tomb. The term derives from the magnificent sepulchral monument built for King Mausolus of Caria (died 353 BC) by his wife Artemisia at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor (modern-day Bodrum in Anatolia, Turkey); it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Today, little remains at the site of the original monument, although some fragmentary sculptures from it are kept in the British Museum, London.

Later examples of mausolea include the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (5th century AD) at Ravenna, Italy, the Taj Mahal, and the sepulchral chapel built by Queen Victoria for Prince Albert at Frogmore, England.



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They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Twelve years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond.
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In one of the most secluded portions of the valley within a stone's cast of Fayaway's lake--for so I christened the scene of our island yachting--and hard by a growth of palms, which stood ranged in order along both banks of the stream, waving their green arms as if to do honour to its passage, was the mausoleum of a deceased, warrior chief.
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