necropoleis

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  • IPA(key): /nɛˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/

Noun

necropoleis

  1. plural of necropolis
    • 1856, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Paterfamilias's diary of everybody's tour: Belgium and the Rhine, Munich, Switzerland, Milan…, page 288:
      Kensall Green, though incipient, is far more picturesque; and several American necropoleis beat it hollow.
    • 2000, Thelma Katrina Thomas, Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: images for this world and the next, page XXIX:
      Ancient necropoleis were cities for the dead where the dead might be active in this world, appearing, speaking, and performing actions that could be perceived by and affect the living.
    • 2007, Christopher Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict, page 213:
      Although Christians frequently met in suburban cemeteries during the second and third centuries, to our knowledge none of these necropoleis became the site…

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