The Collaborative International Dictionary
funeral home \fu"ner*al home`\, n. An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also funeral parlor, mortuary, funeral chapel and informally, undertaker's. The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket. Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family. The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home.
Usage examples of "undertaker's".
At that moment, the door was flung violently open and five drunken undertaker's assistants lurched into me.
Trevor remains motionless, draped in his undertaker's coat and looking like a large and malnourished bird of prey.
Two of the undertaker's assistants stood in the doorway behind her, looking doubtful.
He went on staring at it, standing very still while a gruesome snatch of doggerel he remembered hearing sung in the canteens of the Witwatersrand began trotting through his brain like an undertaker's hack.