corbillard

Some of them have adopted the Egyptian style; some, the Greek; and others, the Roman, for the fashion of their _corbillard_, according to the taste of the municipality who ordered its construction.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

An officer of the police, also clothed in black, and holding a cane with an ivory head, walks before the _corbillard_ or hearse.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

_corbillard_, or sort of hearse, in which his highness was carried to

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

[FOOTNOTE: "Un grand nombre de voitures de deuil et de voitures particulieres," we read in the Gazette musicals, "ont suivi jusqu'au cimetiere de l'Est, dit du Pere-Lachaise, le pompeux corbillard qui portait le corps du defunt.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888