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One approaching a hearse
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pallbearer
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Big guys in black boots come at pallbearers with whips and clubs. ▪ The biggest names in politics were his honorary pallbearers. ▪ There was no service at his funeral: no pallbearers, no priests, no official mourners, no creeping ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral [syn: bearer ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) One who carries a corner of the pall over a coffin or casket. 2 One called upon to carry or bear the casket at a funeral.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pall-bearer , 1707, from pall (n.) + agent noun of bear (v.). Originally one who holds the corners of the pall at a funeral.
Usage examples of pallbearer.
Presently the policemen returned from the Cowgate with a motley assortment of pallbearers.
Teska and the two pallbearers also stood patiently beside the solar transporter, but the same could not be said of the numerologist, Mother Fergolin.
At last the pallbearers brought the casket outside for the funeral photograph.
Arthur and the other pallbearers were only faces set in the windows of the hearse.
Episcopal Church, with pomp and ceremony, and her pallbearers were the husbands of her friends.
Aulus led the senatorial pallbearers carrying the body of Claudius in solemn procession down to a Forum crowded with Romans.
Aulus and the pallbearers carefully hoisted the bier onto the apex of the pyre.
Echoing memories of computer crashes, pallbearer squirrels, a strange man warning her to take the box home, and a stranger woman crouched by the door blurred her vision.
Longarm had managed to crawfish out of being a pallbearer, with hardly a chance in the world if some sore loser threw down on him while he was helping to carry the coffin.
Later, one of the pallbearers told Ellen Cherry that Verlin had been watching a Washington Redskins exhibition game when he stood and clutched his chest.
The finished piece was handed down the line from one to another, each pallbearer stepping back and saluting as he or she finished.
There was the minister who didn't look quite like Reverend Schreiber who'd been pastor of the Ransomville Lutheran Church for decades, and therc were the pallbearers, four men, must be Hausmann relatives but Marianne could recognize only the youngest, a cousin of her mother's now bald and stoop-shouldered.
He's always asking people why the Frenchman crossed the road or how many Polacks it takes to screw in a lightbulb or how many pallbearers there are at a Harlem funeral.