Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An underground burial-vault.
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Examples
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Men-an-tol in Cornwall may well be all that is left of a chamber-tomb of some kind.
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Vaphio cups, found in a _tholos_ chamber-tomb near Amyclae, the men are "long-haired Achaeans," with heavy, pendent locks, like the man on a pyxis from Knossos, published by Mr. Evans; they are of another period than the close-cropped men of the vase and dagger.
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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