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[hurs] 
–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; ME herse < MF herce a harrow < L hirpicem, acc. of hirpex
1250–1300; ME herse < MF herce a harrow < L hirpicem, acc. of hirpex
Related forms:
hearselike, adjective
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| hearse (hûrs) n.
[Middle English herse, a harrow-shaped structure for holding candles over a coffin, from Old French herce, from Medieval Latin hercia, from Latin hirpex, hirpic-, harrow, probably from Oscan hirpus, wolf (alluding to its teeth).] |
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Hearse
Hearse\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A hind in the year of its age. [Eng.] --Wright.Hearse
Hearse\, n. [See Herse.]1. 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. [Obs.] --Oxf. Gloss. 2. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument. [Archaic] "Underneath this marble hearse." --B. Johnson. Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. --Fairfax Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. --Longfellow. 3. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [Obs.] Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. --Shak. 4. A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.Hearse
Hearse\, v. t. To inclose in a hearse; to entomb. [Obs.] "Would she were hearsed at my foot." --Shak.
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Language Translation for : hearse
Spanish:
coche, *carro fúnebre,
German:
der Leichenwagen,
Japanese:
霊柩車
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 because 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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