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noun
- An oblong closed box in which a dead person is bury, buried.
Translations: - German: Sarg
- Italian: bara , feretro
- Spanish: ataíºd , féretro , cajón (italbrac, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay), urna (italbrac, Venezuela)
verb
- (transitive) To place in a coffin.
- 2007: The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon " Barbara Everett, "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances", London Review of Books 29:6, p. 21
Translations: Etymology: From Old French cofin, from Latin cophinus, from Greek "basket".
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