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mausolean
Word definitions for mausolean in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mausolean \Mau`so*le"an\, a. [L. Mausoleus. See Mausoleum .] Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.
Usage examples of mausolean.
With a dull, hideous grating, the uncovered door swung inward, thick and ponderous as a mausolean slab, leaving an aperture from which the nether midnight seemed to well like a flood of aeon-buried foulness.
Then, peering within, we saw the clay-touched outline of the unreturning footprints that went downward into mausolean darkness on the stairs.
We went on, following a main street, and the pavements echoed to our tread in the stillness with a hollow sound, as if the solid stone beneath them had been honeycombed with mausolean vaults in the interim of our weird vigil.