crypt
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From Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kryptos, “hidden”).
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crypt (plural crypts)
- An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/2/1, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/2/1, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the body
