Coffin

Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box which function is to contain the dead body during the funeral, the cremation or the burial.

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Category: Death care products
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coffin

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A wedge shaped burial case that is most often eight sided.

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coffin

Language; Dictionaries

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

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