Earthen tent

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a fancy way to say someone got buried without a name and no one cares

The mayor's body was found in an earthen tent. No one even knew who he was.

They called it an earthen tent, but it was just a hole in the ground with a body in it.

The news said he was in an earthen tent, but it was just a fancy way of saying he was dumped in a ditch.

a grave for someone who didn't matter enough to get a real burial

The earthen tent was just a pile of dirt and a corpse.

They didn’t even put a sign on the earthen tent. No one knew who was under there.

He was in an earthen tent, which was just a fancy name for a dirt hole.

the kind of grave you get if you're too broke to afford a coffin or a funeral

They said he was in an earthen tent, but it just meant he was buried in a hole with no fancy stuff.

The earthen tent was the cheapest way to put him six feet under.

He didn’t even get a headstone. Just an earthen tent and a few crows.