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Hidden under the main floor of a great church is often a large room, often with a tomb as its centerpiece. Many major European churches were built over the remains of a saint—the Vatican's great St. Peter's Basilica is an example—and instead of having the coffin buried, it was often given its spacious room below ground level. In a large aboveground tomb, or mausoleum, there may be several small chambers for individual coffins, also called crypts; when the comic book Tales from the Crypt made its first appearance in 1950, it was this meaning that the authors were referring to.
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Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 23 Sep. 2024
There’s this weird bridge, with an orchestral number, that works great when when Willem Dafoe comes out of the crypt with the Ghoul squad.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024
Truly, baseball crypts are filled with the dead arms of pitchers who were asked to compete in the postseason outside of their comfort zone.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
Researchers examined the human remains of the Ca’ Granda crypt in Milan, located underneath the Church of the Beata Vergine Annunciata.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Crypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crypt. Accessed 8 Oct. 2024.
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