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pallbearer

[pawl-bair-er] / ˈpɔlˌbɛər ər /


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I’ve been a pallbearer like 15 times or something.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Hannah said one of the rooms they used was where a pallbearer would "lower the coffins down before they would be cremated... obviously they don’t use it any more".

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024

Kara-Murza had been a friend of Sen. John McCain and was a pallbearer at his 2018 funeral.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023

When Jim Shoemake died in 2013, Wylie served as a pallbearer at the funeral.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022

He was to be a pallbearer at the funeral.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers




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