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mortician

/mawr-tish-uhn/US // mɔrˈtɪʃ ən //UK // (mɔːˈtɪʃən) //

殡仪员,殡仪馆,殡葬师,殡仪业者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : funeral director.

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Examples

  • Stout, 49, studied to be a mortician before he went into the nursing home business, and also owns a bar-and-grill.

  • Today, we’re talking with mortician and author Caitlin Doughty about her first book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which was published in 2014, when Doughty was 30.

  • Caitlin Doughty is a mortician who would like to put herself out of business.

  • She’s a mortician and self-described “funeral industry rabble-rouser.”

  • Following an interest in science, he considered studying to be a mortician, but decided instead to work as a farmer and veterinarian in a small town in western Kansas, his obituary said.

  • Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.

  • "Father Gary" didn't grow up with a mercurial mortician who embalmed his mother, either.

  • Though Father Gary did spend a summer working with a mortician.

  • I remember one who was studying to become a mortician and he got several very expensive books on the subject.

  • The really smart way nowadays of bidding good-bye to the world is to go to the establishment of a "mortician."

  • Here I discovered that to the mind of the mortician towels belong to the Dark Ages.

  • Here was an expert and a graduate mortician, with diploma to prove it; also one gifted of the pen.

  • Marry Miss Dutton, and you'll be a scarecrow within a year, and require the services of the mortician within two!