Cenotaph

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:24:35

Cen"o*taph (?), n. [Gr. ; empty + burial, tomb: cf. F. c'enotaphe.]

An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

Dryden.

A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.

 

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