| 单词 | mummy pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmummy pit mummy pit n. now historical a pit from which mummies are excavated (used esp. of the catacombs of Egypt). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > subterranean > containing Egyptian mummies mummy pita1684 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 469 The Captaine presented me with a stone he lately brought from Gran<d> Cairo, which he tooke from the Mumy-pitts. 1779 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 66 In the same deserts, but at some distance from the above pyramid, are situated the mummy-pits, the shallowest of which are thirty-two feet deep. 1820 G. Belzoni Egypt & Nubia ii. 230 The same day we visited another mummy-pit, which I had opened six months before. 1895 National Rev. Feb. 811 The entrance to the tombs of the princesses is at the bottom of [the] mummy pit. < as lemmas |
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