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Перевод: coffin
[прилагательное] гробовой; [существительное] гроб ; фунтик ; роговой башмак копыта; копытная кость; заброшенная шахта; [глагол] класть в гроб; упрятать подальше
Тезаурус:
- We have owls in our garden; they cried softly last night as I lay in my glass coffin, Snow White waiting for the fairy to wake her into feminism with a kiss.
- This increased as the use of the parish coffin began to wane, so that by the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, the parish coffin had practically disappeared.
- The cheapest ready-made coffin for a six-foot adult was a "Good inch elm Coffin, smoothed, oiled, and finished with one row round of black or white nails, a plate of inscription, four handles, lined and pillow."
- And my people, the men and maidservants who came running, he confined as you see, each in a glass bottle, and finally closed me into the glass coffin in which you found me.
- It not only puts another nail in socialism's coffin, but deprives him of a peerage.
- A window and a section of wall had to be removed to take out the body and twenty men were needed to lower the coffin into his grave in St. Martin's Churchyard, where his tombstone states "in personal greatness he had no competitor".
- His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier, fresh lined with red and gold damask, its silver handles polished bright.
- Coffin shapes themselves were beginning to change too.
- In the case of the small parish guilds the coffin itself was probably kept somewhere in the church as well, as would have been the "reserved stock" of unbleached beeswax candles.
- It was an easy task, the grave was shallow and soon they had scraped the dirt off the still-white coffin lid.
- Until the appearance in the late eighteenth century of catalogues and pattern books on the types of coffin, linings and coffin furniture provided for the lower-class funeral, the details relating to the upper and middle classes of society have to be gleaned from undertakers' trade cards, eyewitness accounts of funerals and through specific instructions imparted via wills.
- A coffin can be purchased from the undertaker or made.
- Broadsheets issued at the time do not elaborate on the detail of the finish given to the coffin, but show a plain gable-lidded type with or without handles.
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