- a variation of whited sepulcher.
whited sepulchre
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of whited sepulchre
from Matthew 23:27
Example Sentences
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Mary Todd Lincoln understandably called the place "that whited sepulchre."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a whited sepulchre it was a conspicuous success, being irreproachably scholarly, dignified, and didactic in tone, and wholly destitute of principle.
From The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
Never mind the fact of my being a whited sepulchre.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various
There will be a deification of science, and not even a whited sepulchre erected over the measureless Golgothas of its slaughtered theories.
From The History of Dartmouth College by Smith, Baxter Perry
The new town of Corbo with its palatial hotels and wide boulevards was a whited sepulchre, behind which the sores of the true San Pietro festered in hiding.
From The Princess Galva A Romance by Whitelaw, David
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