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funeral parlour

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Her colleague Georges agreed, saying he had built his house and sent his children to study abroad thanks to his funeral parlour.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Helicopters hovered above the site during a frantic search for survivors, while several black vans arrived from a funeral parlour.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Nigel Hotham's uncle, Mark Hotham, died in September 2023 and his body was later found in Bush's funeral parlour.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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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