- 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
It has the largest place of any of them, with a town-hall of imposing appearance, but something of a whited sepulchre for all that.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by John Hartman Morgan
Greig came in the other night and was very jealous of our billets, seeing he had missed his chance and had judged by externals and had caught a whited sepulchre.
From Letters from France by Isaac Alexander Mack
His physical body was whitened—chalked—a whited sepulchre; his moral nature likewise chalked.
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
Never mind the fact of my being a whited sepulchre.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various
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