Coffin
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coffin-184-8946104
title:
Coffin
text:
A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as a casket, particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry, use of the word "casket" in this sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker's trade. A distinction is commonly drawn between "coffins" and "caskets", using "coffin" to refer to a tapered hexagon
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Container for transport, laying out and burial of a corpse
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin
date created:
2003-02-26T17:13:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T08:37:29Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16