sarcophaget

Same as sarcophagus. sarcophagi, n. Plural of sarcophagus. Sarcophagidæ (sär-kō-faj'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., sarcophagous (sär-kof'a-gus), a. [ sarcophagus (sär-kof'a-gus), n.; pl. sarcophagi (-ji). [Formerly also sarcophage, 5343 Sarcophagus (restored), from the Street of Tombs at A os in the Troad, excavated by the Archæological Institute of America, 1881. especially for the burial of distinguished persons whose tombs are more or le monumental. See also cuts under bacchante and Etruscan. 3. A peculiar wine-cooler forming part of a dining-room sideboard about the end of the eighteenth century: it was a dark mahogany box, lined with lead.