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lich gate

American

Or lych gate

noun

a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.

lich gate British

/ lɪtʃ /

noun

a variant spelling of lych gate

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Etymology

Origin of lich gate

First recorded in 1475–85

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But when they came to the lich gate then strode that one over the threshold of the gate but the cripple rolled in over it and straightway rose up a whole man.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

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