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cenotaph

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


NOUN
tombstone
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The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

GMP said there was also another incident of vandalism at the cenotaph on Monday when poppies were taken down.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023

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

Twelve schoolboys, relieved every hour, formed a picket in front of the cenotaph, round which there was an outer circle of juvenile guards, and an inner one of Hugo's intimate friends.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett




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