Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An undertaker.
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- noun Attributive form of
funeral director
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Examples
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In the festively decorated Grill Room of the Four Seasons restaurant on Fifty-second Street, just off Park Avenue, lottery winners Alvirah and Willy Meehan and their good friends, suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly and her funeral-director husband, Luke, were all sipping glasses of wine.
Santa Cruise Mary Higgins Clark 2006
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In the festively decorated Grill Room of the Four Seasons restaurant on Fifty-second Street, just off Park Avenue, lottery winners Alvirah and Willy Meehan and their good friends, suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly and her funeral-director husband, Luke, were all sipping glasses of wine.
Santa Cruise Mary Higgins Clark 2006
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In the festively decorated Grill Room of the Four Seasons restaurant on Fifty-second Street, just off Park Avenue, lottery winners Alvirah and Willy Meehan and their good friends, suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly and her funeral-director husband, Luke, were all sipping glasses of wine.
Santa Cruise Mary Higgins Clark 2006
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The desk clerk, a thin guy with a funeral-director smile and a blue-serge suit, told me he was sorry but Mr. Forbes and Mr.. Forbes were not in the hotel.
Dancing in the Dark Kaminsky, Stuart 1996
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She figures she’s lying in a coffin now—as stiff and shiny and blushed as embalmed Egan—until she hears the funeral director, Mr. Hayes, speak to her in his funeral-director voice.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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She figures she’s lying in a coffin now—as stiff and shiny and blushed as embalmed Egan—until she hears the funeral director, Mr. Hayes, speak to her in his funeral-director voice.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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She figures she’s lying in a coffin now—as stiff and shiny and blushed as embalmed Egan—until she hears the funeral director, Mr. Hayes, speak to her in his funeral-director voice.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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When everyone is obliged wear funeral-director garb, his grey hair and sombre jowls fit the mood perfectly while Dave’s polished and youthful glow looks a trifle out of place.
Parallel universe 2009
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When everyone is obliged wear funeral-director garb, his grey hair and sombre jowls fit the mood perfectly while Dave’s polished and youthful glow looks a trifle out of place.
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