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  2. Pall (funeral) - Wikipedia

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    A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. [1] The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through Old English. [2] A pall or palla is also a stiffened square card covered with white linen, usually embroidered with a cross or some other appropriate

  3. Pallbearer - Wikipedia

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    A pall is a heavy cloth that is draped over a coffin. [4] [5] Thus the term pallbearer is used to signify someone who "bears" the coffin which the pall covers. In Roman times, a soldier wore a cape or cloak called the pallium. In medieval times the term pallium was shortened to pall. Christians would use a pall to cover their loved ones when ...

  4. Military funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A casket draped in the flag of the United States and as a pall. A casket team serving as honor guards in a ceremonial role over the remains and as pallbearers. For funerals for an enlisted non-commissioned officer of E-9 rank and officers, the casket is transported via a horse-drawn limbers and caissons.

  5. Funeral - Wikipedia

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    A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.

  6. Knottekistje - Wikipedia

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    Silver knottekistje with pictures of people in 17th-century costumes - Dokkum (1700) A knottekistje or wedding casket is a small Frisian money casket. [1] [2]Apart from their content Knottekistjes are also valuable since in most cases they are made of silver.

  7. Catafalque - Wikipedia

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    A catafalque is a raised bier, box, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of a dead person during a Christian funeral or memorial service. [1] Following a Roman Catholic Requiem Mass , a catafalque may be used to stand in place of the body at the absolution of the dead or used during Masses of ...

  8. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    A burial vault encloses a coffin on all four sides, the top, and the bottom. Modern burial vaults are lowered into the grave, and the coffin lowered into the vault. A lid is then lowered to cover the coffin and seal the vault. Modern burial vaults may be made of concrete, metal, or plastic.

  9. Pall - Wikipedia

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    Pall may refer to: Pall (funeral), a cloth used to cover a coffin; Pall (heraldry), a Y-shaped heraldic charge; Pall (liturgy), a piece of stiffened linen used to cover the chalice at the Eucharist; Pall Corporation, a global business; Pall., author abbreviation of German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas; Pallium, a vestment pertaining to an ...