cenotaph

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In the square leading to the cenotaph, relatives and friends have written the names and ages of the disaster's 57 victims in red paint.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Flowers and messages were left at the cenotaph in the One Direction performer's home town following his death in Argentina in October.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2024

Choi kneels before the cenotaph and hangs his head.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

“A vast cenotaph of secession” was how the journalist and historian Tony Horwitz described Richmond in his 1998 book, “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War.”

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2022

The cenotaph afterwards erected in Stoke Park by Mr. Penn is described below.

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert