lich-gate

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  1. A churchyard gate with a porch or shed forming a chapel either combined with it or contiguous to it, in which in England and on the continent it was formerly customary, and is still usual in some places, for a bier to stand during the reading of the introductory part of the service, before it is borne inside; a corpsegate. It is very commonly nothing more than a simple shed under which is the gate. Also spelled, archaically, lychgate. Yet to the lychgate, where his chariot stood, Strode from the porch. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field.

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  • Bray, in Berkshire, famous for its time-serving vicar, is also famous for its lich-gate, which has two rooms over it. —  English Villages
  • At the entrance to the graveyard is the lich-gate and mortuary, where many wrecked seamen were taken for burial. —  The Cornwall Coast
  • The lich-gate and the crumbling wall, —  Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II
  • At the lich-gate Aunt Rachel paused to shake hands with everybody but —  Aunt Rachel
  • Together they went out at the lich-gate. —  The Man
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