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Hadas Gold, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
At a 16th-century Jewish cemetery in Lublin, iron locks were laid on shrouds, around the head of the deceased or, in the absence of a coffin, on a plank covering the corpse.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
If investors see the layoffs as another nail in a struggling company’s coffin, the stock may fall.
—The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
Thursday was the final nail in the coffin, with California and Stanford heading for the door, agreeing to join the Atlantic Coast Conference.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims.
—Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
Mark Matthews, general manager of DFW cargo operations at American, is directing transports for airplane parts, consumer goods, fresh salmon and even empty coffins to customers from all over the world.
—Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
Four years after burying Sister Wilhelmina, the order’s founder, in a simple wood coffin in a corner of the property, the sisters decided to move her body into a customary place of honor inside their church.
—Ruth Graham Katie Currid, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
The coffins signifies death to the slave master or to the overseer.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
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The funeral turns into a muddy, slapstick bumble, and the digger hastily buries the whole mess—king, coffin, and somebody’s busted umbrella.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
Its lumber held generations of Americans from cradle to coffin.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
Stanley Cup drought could be hours from ending, the team tried to avoid the topic, keep its focus and prepare the final nail for the Flyers’ coffin.
—Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2022
Galella was born in New York City on Jan. 10, 1931 to a piano and coffin manufacturer father and a mother who worked as a crochet beader.
—Sasha Urban, Variety, 2 May 2022
For those who want to give their fingers a more elongated shape as the leaves start to fall, coffin fall nail designs are a great option.
—Michella Oré, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2021
A week later, at her funeral, my sister and I stood next to her coffin the entire time.
—Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2021
Lee recommends coffin nails for those who aren't afraid of a bold look and says the trend looks amazing on slender fingers with acrylic nails.
—Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2021
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Word History
Noun
Middle English cofyn, coffyn "basket, hamper" (in translations from Latin), "chest, box," borrowed from Anglo-French cofin, coffin "basket, chest, container," borrowed from Latin cophinus "large basket, hamper," borrowed from Greek kóphinos "large basket," of pre-Greek substratal origin
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“Coffin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffin. Accessed 26 Sep. 2023.
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