funeral home
noun
an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
Origin of funeral home
1An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
- Also called funeral chapel, funeral church, funeral parlor, funeral residence, mortuary.
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How to use funeral home in a sentence
The churchyard has a fine Gothic entrance gateway and a funeral chapel of the sixteenth century.
Rambles in Brittany | Francis MiltounOn entering it the visitor sees, to the right, a funeral chapel in the Greek style, which is the tomb of Rachel.
Old and New Paris, v. 1 | Henry Sutherland Edwards
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