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Definition of Funeral chapel
1. Noun. A mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects.
Generic synonyms: Dead Room, Morgue, Mortuary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Funeral Chapel
Literary usage of Funeral chapel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Amsterdam School by Maristella Casciato (1996)
"1912 and later than 1909) and for a funeral chapel in 1910. The competition 'Design
for a funeral chapel at a public cemetery in a large town' was held by ..."
2. The Merv Oasis: Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian During the Years by Edmund O'Donovan (1882)
"The small wooden house, evidently constructed with the planking of old fishing
boats, is a kind of funeral chapel, where the ..."
3. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary by Ibn Khallikān (1843)
"This prince was born AH 569 (AD 1173-4) and died at Emessa on Tuesday, the 19th
of Rajab, AH 637 (February, AD 1240) : he was interred in a funeral chapel ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... his evaporated were successfully revived by the wonderful funeral chapel, but
only the figures of God the Father This same poetry as of a higher kind of ..."
5. A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1902)
"In a chamber in the building itself, or in a grave in the foundation or solid
rock, lay the mummy; on one side of the building was the funeral chapel, ..."
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