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Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

Eloge :: Eloge (n.) A panegyrical funeral oration.

Undertaker :: Undertaker (n.) Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals..

Catafalque :: Catafalque (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial..

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..

Hearselike :: Hearselike (a.) Suitable to a funeral.

Pyre :: Pyre (n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt..

Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

Herse :: Herse (n.) A funeral ceremonial.

Obit :: Obit (n.) A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.

Pile :: Pile (n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural..

Undertaking :: Undertaking (n.) Specifically, the business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals..

Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

Funeration :: Funeration (n.) The act of burying with funeral rites.

Arval :: Arval (n.) A funeral feast.

Infuneral :: Infuneral (v. t.) To inter with funeral rites; to bury.

Sable :: Sable (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.

Mourner :: Mourner (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..

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