crypt

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/kɹɪpt/

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher
Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa
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.

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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, “3/2/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
On its arrival at Bank, incidentally, the City & South London's directors had threatened to demolish the church of St Mary Woolnoth, but after a public outcry the company built its station in the crypt of the church, the bodies being transferred [...]. Therefore St Mary Woolnoth doesn't have a crypt. Or you could say that its crypt is Bank station.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 106
Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.
2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 25

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Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.