Other forms: sepulchres
A sepulchre is a tomb cut in rock or built of stone. The Holy Sepulchre, a whited sepulchre, laid in the sepulchre.
It is literary and biblical, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is the famous one. A whited sepulchre is a gospel phrase for a hypocrite: clean and impressive outside and full of bones within. Americans spell it sepulcher.
1nounsepulchreA tomb cut in rock or built of stone.
“The body of the saint was laid in a stone sepulchre beneath the church.”
sepulchre is a tomb.
Also accepted in games: sepulcher
Latin sepulcrum comes from sepelire, to bury.
Latin
sepulchrum
Old French
sepulchre
Old English
sepulcer
Middle English
sepulchre
English, today
sepulchre
Built from
From Middle English sepulchre, sepulcre, sepulker, from late Old English sepulcer, Old French sepulchre, sepulcre, and their etymon Latin sepulchrum, sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire