coffin
noun
the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial; casket.
coffinless
-
a word derived from
coffin.
Example Sentences
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Richard’s bones were found buried, coffinless, beneath a parking lot.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 22, 2015
Near Thebes, a cemetery yielded examples of burying from a prehistoric coffinless method to early mummification.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet, surely, I reflected, something resembling interment must have taken place on the arrival of each corpse, especially as it was coffinless.
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by John O'Rourke
On Lusitania's rock—girt coast, All coffinless thy relics lie, Where all but honour bright was lost, Yet thy example shall not die.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
At moments the fitful rays fall upon bearers carrying a coffinless body rolled in a blanket, with a military cloak roughly thrown over by way of pall.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
