hypogeum

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And one recalls the emotion of Mariette, when, on entering it, he saw on the sandy ground the imprint of the naked feet of the last Egyptian who left it thirty-seven centuries before What strikes us most of all in the colossal hypogeum is the meeting there, in the middle of the stairway by which we leave, with yet another black coffin, which lies across our path as if to bar it.

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  1. noun A subterranean chamber of an ancient building.
  2. noun An ancient subterranean burial chamber, such as a catacomb.

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  • Hitherto I had lived in a hypogeum, lighted by smoky lamps; now I was going to see the sun and the light of day THE PETTY SEMINARY OF SAINT NICHOLAS DU CHARDONNET PART II. —  Recollections of My Youth
  • A thickly carpeted corridor lay outside, a corridor silent as the hypogeum of the Apis, secretive, gorgeous, with tasseled silk curtains and hanging lamps. —  The Man Who Lost Himself
  • Hitherto I had lived in a hypogeum, lighted by smoky lamps; now I was going to see the sun and the light of day THE PETTY SEMINARY OF SAINT NICHOLAS DU CHARDONNET PART II About the month of April, 1838, M. de Talleyrand, feeling his end draw near, thought it necessary to act a last lie in accordance with human prejudices, and he resolved to be reconciled, in appearance, to a Church whose truth, once acknowledged by him, convicted him of sacrilege and of dishonour. —  Recollections of My Youth
  • And one recalls the emotion of Mariette, when, on entering it, he saw on the sandy ground the imprint of the naked feet of the last Egyptian who left it thirty-seven centuries before What strikes us most of all in the colossal hypogeum is the meeting there, in the middle of the stairway by which we leave, with yet another black coffin, which lies across our path as if to bar it. —  Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
  • And this hypogeum is not unique. —  Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
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  1. Latin hypogēum, from Greek hupogeion, from neuter of hupogeios, underground; see hypogeal.
 

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