Meaning & use
sarcophaguses
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Stone coffins, typically inscribed or decorated, used especially in ancient cultures to hold a body or its remains.
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The museum's Egyptian wing displays several ornately carved sarcophaguses.
Archaeologists uncovered three sarcophaguses in the newly opened tomb.
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The plural can also be sarcophagi, using the original Greek form; sarcophaguses is the more anglicized alternative.
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