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Definition of Gravestones
1. gravestone [n] - See also: gravestone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravestones
Literary usage of Gravestones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1896)
"IN SEARCH OF Gravestones OLD AND CURIOUS. By WT Vincent. Cloth, demy 8vo. ...
These gravestones belong to the past, and are hastening to decay. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... period are numerous gravestones, capitals, moldings, etc. A predominating
motif in such carvings is the complex interlacing lines like wattle- work ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand (1849)
"Gravestones. THE custom of laying flat stones in our churches and churchyards
over the graves of better sort of persons, on which are inscribed epitaphs ..."
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