| 单词 | walking funeral |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalking funeral walking funeral n. now historical a funeral in which the coffin, propelled on a bier, is escorted on foot (as opposed to being transported on a horse-drawn hearse). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > type of out-funeral1637 walking funeral1772 1772 G. Wright Sylvan Lett. vii, in Rural Christian 118 As..we are not far from the church, it was a walking funeral. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ix. 285 I wish I may only have a walking funeral, and never be buried decent with a mourning-coach and feathers. 1948 F. Thompson Still glides Stream i. 9 At least one walking funeral had passed that way. 1983 L. Taylor Mourning Dress i. 40 Even amongst the poor there were grades of funerals. The grandest involved the use of a horse-drawn hearse, but much more common was a ‘walking funeral’ where the coffin was wheeled on its hearse. < as lemmas |
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