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pallbearer

/pawl-bair-er/US // ˈpɔlˌbɛər ər //UK // (ˈpɔːlˌbɛərə) //

仵工,仵作,陪护员,仵作人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one of several persons who carry or attend the coffin at a funeral.

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Examples

  • Jeziah was ready to work, handing out tissues and later leading the pallbearers to the hearse.

  • Watching them standing around as the pallbearers brought those four caskets from the church left me in a state of rage.

  • More than one said they had been asked to serve as a pallbearer.

  • Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.

  • Should you be a relative or a pallbearer, wear a black weed on your hat.

  • Numbering many times six hundred, they advance afoot, creeping at a pallbearer's pace behind a barrage fire.

  • Pallbearers are chosen from among his intimate friends; a relative never acts as pallbearer.

  • In 1780 he was a pallbearer at the funeral of Governor Hutchinson.

  • When my brother Blackford was senator, it seemed to me he spent most of his time acting as pallbearer for the dead ones.