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cenotaph

[sen-uh-taf, -tahf] / ˈsɛn əˌtæf, -ˌtɑf /


NOUN
tombstone
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Great guide-boards of stone, But travellers none; Cenotaphs of the towns Named on their crowns.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

Cenotaphs, however, were of two sorts: those erected to persons already duly buried, which were merely honorary, and those erected to the unburied dead, which had a religious end and efficacy.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Great guide-boards of stone, But travelers none; Cenotaphs of the towns Named on their crowns.

From Walking by Thoreau, Henry David




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