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coffin

noun as in box for dead person

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The coffin contained his lawyer's robe, a speech he made against capital punishment and several books, his wife told the TF1 television broadcaster.

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“You think you’re going into a coffin every night,” he said.

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Thousands of fans turned out to cheer the coffin on Osbourne's final journey through his home city of Birmingham.

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Following his death, Ozzy was given an emotional send-off as his coffin took a final journey through his home city, watched on by thousands of fans who chanted his name.

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Hundreds of mourners walked with coffins draped in colourful cloth into the compound of the Arerti Mariam church while clerics conducted burial rituals.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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