headstone

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The moment came when I noticed that the mother's birthday on the headstone was the same as mine.

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  1. noun A memorial stone set at the head of a grave.
  2. noun Architecture See keystone.

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  • Esk saw a fallen headstone, and realized that these were sunken graves, with the sickly plants crowding them. —  Vale of the Vole
  • Jimmerson stood once again in the room with the clock and the flowers, where he had just signed the work order for Edna's headstone- her true headstone, a simple granite slab: loving wife of Doyle Jimmerson, marriage date as well as birth and death. —  EBSCOhost
  • I brought a few garden tools so I could clean everything up around the headstone, and I brought sunflowers, which Anne had always liked especially. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
  • He saw Pigalle slumped over the headstone, his form so gaunt and still as to resemble an empty raincoat that some tramp might gratefully steal. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
  • Is it possible that Islam has us in such a chokehold that a headstone, a garden any tribute to an honor killing victim is controversial? —  Atlas Shrugs
 

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/ˈhɛdstoʊn/
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