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What is a sarcophagus?

What is a sarcophagus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
  2. (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
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The stone sarcophagus is carefully lifted from its resting place in Mill Mount, York.
The whole nation mourned the irreparable loss as Nelson laid peacefully in his sarcophagus.
Beneath it he created his own rose-coloured granite sarcophagus, and tended the flowers around it daily.
Isis looked long at the sarcophagus, if the legends were true the body of Osiris rested in the stone structure in front of her.
One day, you're bouncing on top of a camel and climbing inside the Great Pyramid to eye the stone sarcophagus of Pharaoh Cheops.
The griffins at the ends of the sarcophagus are mythical monsters that preside apotropaically as guardians over the deceased.

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