hearses

Noun

hearse (plural hearses)

1. 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.
2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
   • underneath this sable hearse1621, Ben Jonson, Epitath to Mary Herbert
3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
   • Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
4. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

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