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funeral parlour

British

noun

Usual US name: funeral home. a place where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation

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Beverley told the court how learning that her baby Sunny Beverley-Conlin was found in a brown paper bag on the floor of the funeral parlour "will stay with me for the rest of my life".

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

His body was later found in Bush's funeral parlour.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Beverley, her husband and other families are campaigning for changes to funeral parlour regulations, backed by a number of lawmakers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

An ex-employee described Robert Bush's funeral parlour as a "horror scene", prosecutor Chris Paxton said at the start of a five-day sentencing hearing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Feeling like an undertaker’s apprentice in a funeral parlour, I crept downstairs.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

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