cenotaph

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Near the cenotaph is a marble pillar on which once was set the Koh-i-noor diamond, chief of Akbar's treasures.

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  1. noun A monument erected in honor of a dead person whose remains lie elsewhere.

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  • But he might have been shouting at a cenotaph, for the man never answered, nor did any gleam of recognition show in his face. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • A cenotaph has been erected to his memory among the poets of his country in Westminster Abbey, by his eldest son, the Rev. Christopher Anstey, with the following inscription M.S. Christopheri Anstey, Arm. —  Lives of the English Poets
  • Next to it is the original wooden cenotaph, a masterpiece of the linear interplay typical of Ayyubid woodworking. —  Al-Ahram Weekly Online
  • This cenotaph is itself placed on an edifice that has on its four corners four torches that are perpetually kept alive. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • The picture is his cenotaph, and like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment. —  doggdot.us
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  1. French cénotaphe, from Old French, from Latin cenotaphium, from Greek kenotaphion : kenos, empty + taphos, tomb.

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  1. = French cénotaphe = Spanish Italian cenotafio = Portuguese cenotaphio, from Latin cenotaphium, from Greek κενοτάφιον, an empty tomb, from κενός, empty, + τάφος, a tomb.
  2. cenotaph, n.
 

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