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    hearse

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Motor vehicles, Death
    hearse /hɜːs $ hɜːrs/ noun [countable]  TTCMXa large car used to carry a dead body in a coffin at a funeral 灵车
    Examples from the Corpus
    hearse• He faced Main Street, where a black hearse turned the corner.• To this day, I continued to follow the route of his hearse into a withdrawing space beyond this earth.• Unfortunately, the wheels were attached not to his skinny body but to an old hearse.• He blessed himself and dropped his eyes as the hearse passed.• Her gaze never left the hearse.• Obviously the hearse and mourning coaches were rented, but certainly not the coffin.• He sat by the rear door of the hearse with a gun in each hand while Jack bled and bled.• I realized why people confuse them with hearses.    Origin hearse (1200-1300) Old French herce “frame for holding candles, farm tool for breaking up soil”, from Latin hirpex
    hearse nounChinese
    used body car to carry dead large Corpus a a


    hearse
    hearse /hɜːs $ hɜːrs/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1200-1300
     Language: Old French
     Origin: herce 'frame for holding candles, farm tool for breaking up soil', from Latin hirpex
    a large car used to carry a dead body in a coffin at a funeral


    hearseBrE /hɜːs/ 🔊NAmE /hɜːrs/ 🔊 nouna long vehicle used for carrying the coffin (= the box for the dead body) at a funeral 灵车；柩车

    ashes, cemetery, coffin, cremation, die, funeral, grave1, hearse, morgue, mourn