| 单词 | tomb-builder |
| 释义 | > as lemmastomb-builder b. Objective, as tomb-breaker, tomb-builder, tomb-maker, etc. ΚΠ 1580 Indenture in Archæol. Jrnl. (1851) 8 185 Richard Roiley..Tumbe maker. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 51 These Tombe-breakers, these graue-diggers. 1838 Leicester Chron. 10 Nov. Mr. George Dare, glazier and tomb engraver. 1865 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 380 They were the tomb plunderers. 1882 Harper's Mag. July 186/2 Their ostensible calling being that of guides and donkey-masters, their private profession that of tomb-breakers and mummy-snatchers. 1939 W. B. Yeats Last Poems 20 What great tomb-haunter sweeps the distant sky. 1963 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 67 358/1 The purpose of the slab in the north wall is not clear, unless the tomb-builder feared the rubble corbelling would not support the roof. 2010 F. Lentricchia Ital. Actress 106 Look, my tomb-lover—are you alive? < as lemmas |
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