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gravestones

  • plural
    of gravestone.
    gravestone
    noun
    a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.

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A ragtag online group, the “Grave Marker Recovery Team,” hunts down gravestones that have been stolen, typically to sell at antique shows as accents for upscale decorating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

The 30 available gravestones, many now without distinguishable inscriptions, date back to the 19th Century.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

The sun was beating down on me so hard that I felt like I was about to faint on the gravestones.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

"We lost 13 great, great people, what a horrible day it was," Trump said in the video, with clips of him laying wreaths at soldiers' gravestones and talking to members of Gold Star families.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2024

To Gogol’s surprise they are told not to draw the gravestones, but to rub their surfaces.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri