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Definition of Pallbearer
1. Noun. One of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral.
Definition of Pallbearer
1. n. One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Definition of Pallbearer
1. Noun. (archaic) One who carries a corner of the pall over a coffin or casket. ¹
2. Noun. One called upon to carry or bear the casket at a funeral. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pallbearer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pallbearer
Literary usage of Pallbearer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book of Burlesques by Henry Louis Mencken (1920)
"SECOND pallbearer It wouldn't do him no good, no matter what we done. ...
FOURTH pallbearer But it's hard all the same. FIFTH pallbearer It's hard on her. ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, House of representatives, United States, Congress (1905)
"... attending a funeral in Brooklyn, as a pallbearer with him, and that there the
subject came up of the Fredonia postoffice and Dunkirk postoffice*matters? ..."
3. Memorials of the Honorable Joshua S. Salmon by Andrew M. Sherman (1904)
"Otey, pallbearer of Cummings, dies before the latter is buried, and Salmon,
pallbearer to Otey, joins his colleague in the great congress of the other world ..."
4. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"I 've bc-en pallbearer for three of the slickest men that ever shuffled a deck
in Kentucky— just a little too slick, that 's all—and they 've always got it ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"... having the melancholy distinction, as a member of the class from Massachusetts,
of officiating as pallbearer at the funeral of the last named, ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1899)
"... the magnanimous Johnston, though aged and feeble, travelled from Washington
to New York to act as a pallbearer and to grieve as a sincere mourner at his ..."
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