funeral parlour

British

noun

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

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Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the couple said they discovered Ms Upton had kept their daughter's body at her home, six miles away from the funeral parlour where they believed her body was being looked after.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

A son claims his mother's body was found "decomposing" in a Hull funeral parlour months after he was told she had been cremated.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

The cremations take place at a nearby animal funeral parlour, which charges him a “symbolic” fee.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2021

Two men from a funeral parlour loaded the body onto a stretcher and struggled up a steep bank to take it a morgue.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2019

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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