taxidermy

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Seems to me taxidermy is a promising third course to burial or cremation.

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  1. noun The art or operation of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

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  • It's a great place to go if you love digging through an assortment of taxidermy, strange bottles, tools, hats & madness. —  galadarling.com
  • Highlights include Rachel Denny's domestic taxidermy, Jessica Polk's "specimens", and dioramas by artist Wesley Younie. —  Portland Mercury
  • Gerard Giguere has a display of taxidermy, guns, swords and sporting items. —  Maine News Updates - Central Maine Newspapers, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel
  • Her taxidermy-meets-found-objects approach to art, in all its precious yet appetite-curbing whimsy, represents a stark contrast to gallery owner James Oliver's highly subjective abstractions - which are, among other things, part of Stephen Starr's personal collection.
  • While movers were packing her rented Malibu pad, they mistook a $12,000 sculpture of a taxidermy bird by British artist —  Heeb HQ RSS
 

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  1. = French taxidermie, from Greek τάξις, order, arrangement, + δέρμα, skin: see derm.
 

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/ˈtæksɪdərmi/
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