Middle English Dictionary Entry
mausolēum n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mausolēum n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A mausoleum.
Associated quotations
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)228/28,30,32 : And it is callyd mausoleum by a man that hyȝt Mausoleus, the whiche man was so wel loued with his wyf that after tyme of his deþ sche made hym a glorious and a riche sepulcre and callyd it Mausoleum. And of this come it in custome that iche sepulcre is callyd mausoleum.