Metallic Coffin

Any box used to bury the dead in is a coffin. Use of the word casket in this sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker’s trade in North America; a casket was originally a box for jewelry.

Keywords

grave, burial, coffin, casket, cemetery, deceased, metal coffin, funerary box, cremation

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Death Care

Source

Government Printing Office The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1895)

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