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

Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..

Solemnity :: Solemnity (n.) A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament..

Bierbalk :: Bierbalk (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals..

Pollinctor :: Pollinctor (n.) One who prepared corpses for the funeral.

Bury :: Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume..

Keener :: Keener (n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.

Achievement :: Achievement (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

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

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

Knell :: Knell (n.) To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen..

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

Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..

Gladiator :: Gladiator (n.) Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement..

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

Threnode :: Threnode (n.) A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song..

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

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

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

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

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