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noun
1.
a vehicle for conveying a dead person to the place of burial.
2.
a triangular frame for holding candles, used at the service of Tenebrae in Holy Week.
3.
a canopy erected over a tomb.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English herse < Middle French herce a harrow < Latin hirpicem, accusative of hirpex
1250–1300; Middle English herse < Middle French herce a harrow < Latin hirpicem, accusative of hirpex
Related forms
hearse·like, adjective
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Hearse
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Example Sentences
- On the way up an incline, the hearse breaks loose, and all the mourner/dancers give terribly graceful chase.
- For two years, a growing crowd has lined up along the road to show respect whenever a soldier's hearse drives through town.
- In a balmy spring breeze, eight police officers lifted the ebony coffin from the hearse and hoisted it to their shoulders.
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Word Origin & History
hearse
1291 (in Anglo-Latin), "flat framework for candles, hung over a coffin," from O.Fr. herce "long rake, harrow," from M.L. hercia, from L. hirpicem (nom. hirpex) "harrow," from Oscan hirpus "wolf," supposedly in allusion to its teeth. The Oscan word may be related to L. hirsutus "shaggy, bristly." So called
EXPANDbecause it resembled a harrow, a large rake for breaking up soil. Sense extended to other temporary frameworks built over dead people, then to "vehicle for carrying a body," a sense first recorded 1650.
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