| 单词 | oven vault |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoven vault e. Chiefly U.S. A small tomb built above ground, resembling an oven. Also oven tomb, oven vault. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > small > at ground level oven1851 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-west I. ii. xiv. 154 The cemetery exhibits three stories of oven-like tombs, constructed in the wall.] 1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. U.S. I. xxi. 237 The graves are also elevated. The dead are buried in sepulchral houses, which are termed here ‘ovens’. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 267/2 Owing to the damp nature of the ground..there are no graves in the cemeteries, the coffins with the dead being deposited in tombs or ‘ovens’ erected above the soil. 1893 Harper's Mag. Feb. 374/1 The tombs are houses built upon the ground, and provided with cubby-hole or drawerlike compartments, to be sealed with a marble slab as each coffin is put in place. The term ‘oven tombs’ describes them well. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 511/1 There was no system in the arrangement of the ‘ovens’. 1997 R. Raburn New Orleans 153 Above ground burials, necessitated by shallow water tables, took place in family tombs or the long rows of ‘oven’ vaults that often line the walls. < as lemmas |
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