hearse
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and…A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
» Who was driving the hearse?
Кто вёл катафалк?
Meaning
4 sensesA framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
балдахи́нbaldaxín
балдахі́нbaldaxín
A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
моги́лаmogíla, гробgrob, гробни́цаgrobníca
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
катафа́лкkatafálk, дро́гиdrógi
катафа́лкkatafálk
A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
Leichenwagen
катафа́лкkatafálk, дро́гиdrógi
катафа́лкkatafálk
- a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
Examples
5 sentencesWho was driving the hearse?
ruКто вёл катафалк?
The coffin was loaded into the hearse.
ruГроб поставили в катафалк.
The hearse was drawn by eight black horses.
The fatal thing about paradise is: you can only reach it in a hearse.
Tom's car is a hearse.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce in the sense "triangular fraFrom Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce in the sense "triangular framework used to support candles". Ultimately the same word as Old French herce (“harrow”), from Latin *herpicem, accusative singular of *herpex, a variant form of hirpex (“harrow”). The agricultural device's name comes from Oscan hirpus (“wolf”), a reference to a harrow's many teeth. The term for wolf may ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“stiff, rigid, bristled”). The Oscan term is related to Latin hīrsūtus (“bristly, shaggy”), whence English hirsute.
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