funeral parlour

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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They said they had agreed to their daughter being taken by Florrie's Army, as Ms Upton had led them to believe the body was being kept at a funeral parlour in Headingley until the burial.

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Mr Houchin did not name the homes at the centre of the mishap, but the BBC has requested comment from a nursing home and funeral parlour that were named by local media.

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A grieving daughter has been told her mother's ashes were found during a police search at a funeral parlour, months after she thought she had scattered them.

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After Louise left the funeral parlour, the ashes were delivered to her home later that evening.

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