The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word MAUSOLEUM
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More clues leading to the result MAUSOLEUM
- Gold only found in quiet tomb
- Usual memo recirculated was a great wonder
- Large tomb, parent bagging a posh one
- Tomb of old woman, lined with gold only
- Mum went around clinging to gold, alone in a burial chamber
- Gold one found inside quiet tomb
- Mummy with inscribed gold fish in burial chamber
- Gold alone is kept in silence in gloomy place
- Gold only to be used in mother’s tomb
- Gold single mother keeps in vault
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What does MAUSOLEUM mean?
MAUSOLEUM noun- A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
- (by extension) A gloomy, usually large room or building.