- 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
All England was a whited sepulchre, full of dead men’s bones.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
He sees the corruption inside the whited sepulchre.
From Sowing and Reaping by Moody, Dwight Lyman
When we had reduced the herrings to skeletons, and the cream-pot to a whited sepulchre of emptiness, we slipped from our moorings, and sailed away from the lovely little village with sincere regret.
From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Collins, Wilkie
Peter Crow looked respectable—and he was a whited sepulchre.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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