单词 | hearse-house |
释义 | > as lemmashearse-house hearse-house n. a dead-house; a building in which a hearse is kept. ΘΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > mortuary lich-housec1200 coffin-house1611 dead-house1812 dead-room1835 funeral house1850 mortuary1864 hearse-house1870 slumber room1936 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 101 A vestry, with a hearse-house beyond it..has been built in modern times. 1895 Pryce Burden of Woman 91 The hearse-house or dead-house of the church (the lowest room of a tower where in old days the bodies of strangers who had lost their way and perished were placed for possible identification pending burial). < as lemmas |
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