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   crypt

   /krɪpt/

   noun

   • 1. an underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place.
   • 2. a small tubular gland, pit, or recess.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘cavern’): from Latin crypta, from Greek kruptē ‘a vault’, from kruptos ‘hidden’.

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